About the Authors

Tzer-Ying Seng

ty.seng@felda.net.my

Affiliations Federal Land Development Authority Malaysia Biotechnology Centre, Federal Land Development Authority Malaysia Agricultural Services Sdn. Bhd., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

Siti Hawa Mohamed Saad

Affiliation Federal Land Development Authority Malaysia Biotechnology Centre, Federal Land Development Authority Malaysia Agricultural Services Sdn. Bhd., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Cheuk-Weng Chin

Affiliation Federal Land Development Authority Malaysia Biotechnology Centre, Federal Land Development Authority Malaysia Agricultural Services Sdn. Bhd., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ngoot-Chin Ting

Affiliation Advanced Biotechnology and Breeding Centre, Malaysian Palm Oil Board, Kajang, Malaysia

Rajinder Singh Harminder Singh

Affiliation Advanced Biotechnology and Breeding Centre, Malaysian Palm Oil Board, Kajang, Malaysia

Faridah Qamaruz Zaman

Affiliation Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

Soon-Guan Tan

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

Sharifah Shahrul Rabiah Syed Alwee

Affiliation Federal Land Development Authority Malaysia Biotechnology Centre, Federal Land Development Authority Malaysia Agricultural Services Sdn. Bhd., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST-Y FQZ RSHS SSRSA. Performed the experiments: ST-Y SHMS TN-C. Analyzed the data: ST-Y. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ST-Y CC-W SSRSA RSHS. Wrote the paper: ST-Y TN-C CC-W FQZ TS-G RSHS SSRSA.