About the Authors

Pankaj Kumar

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India

Pankaj Kumar

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biotechnology Division, CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India

Dixit Sharma

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Centre for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India

Shailender Kumar Verma

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Centre for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India

Dennis Halterman

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Arun Kumar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

arunkumar@ihbt.res.in, arunihbt@gmail.com

Affiliations Biotechnology Division, CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.