About the Authors

Arabinda Ghosh

Contributed equally to this work with: Arabinda Ghosh, Pranjal Sarmah

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

Affiliation Microbiology Division, Department of Botany, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India

Pranjal Sarmah

Contributed equally to this work with: Arabinda Ghosh, Pranjal Sarmah

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering and Technology, GUIST, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India

Harun Patel

Roles Resources

Affiliation R. C. Patel Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Shirpur, Maharastra, India

Nobendu Mukerjee

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology; Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Khardaha, West Bengal, Kolkata, India

Rajbardhan Mishra

Roles Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunotherapy, Institute of Microbiology v.v.i., Czech Academy of Sciences, Videnska, Prague, Czech Republic

Saad Alkahtani

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

drdbaishya@gmail.com (DB); salkahtani@ksu.edu.sa (SA)

Affiliation Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Rajender S. Varma

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Regional Center of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Debabrat Baishya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

drdbaishya@gmail.com (DB); salkahtani@ksu.edu.sa (SA)

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering and Technology, GUIST, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.