About the Authors

Priya Dey

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Unit of Plant Pathology, Centre for Advance Studies in Botany, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Ramani Ramanujam

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Unit of Plant Pathology, Centre for Advance Studies in Botany, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Ganesan Venkatesan

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Acme Progen Biotech (India) Pvt. Ltd, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India

Radhakrishnan Nagarathnam

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

nradhakrishnan@unom.ac.in

Affiliation Unit of Plant Pathology, Centre for Advance Studies in Botany, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Competing Interests

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