About the Authors

Zahra Hajibarat

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Department of Cell & Molecular Biology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Abbas Saidi

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

abbas.saidi@gmail.com (AS); m_zeinalabedini@yahoo.com (MZ)

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Department of Cell & Molecular Biology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Mehrshad Zeinalabedini

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

abbas.saidi@gmail.com (AS); m_zeinalabedini@yahoo.com (MZ)

Affiliation Department of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran

Ahmad Mousapour Gorji

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Vegetable Research, Seed and Plant Improvement Institute (SPII), Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran

Mohammad Reza Ghaffari

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran

Vahid Shariati

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, NIGEB Genome Center, Tehran, Iran

Rahim Ahmadvand

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Vegetable Research, Seed and Plant Improvement Institute (SPII), Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.