About the Authors

Mehrdad Chaichi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, Iran

Forough Sanjarian

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

fsanjarian@nigeb.ac.ir

Affiliation National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, Iran

Khadijeh Razavi

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, Iran

Jose L. Gonzalez-Hernandez

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Agronomy, Horticulture and Plant Sciences Dept., South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.