About the Authors

Varnika Bhatia

Affiliation National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute Campus, New Delhi, India

Ramcharan Bhattacharya

rcb@nrcpb.org

Affiliation National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute Campus, New Delhi, India

Prem L. Uniyal

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Rajendra Singh

Affiliation Phytotron Facility, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

Rampal S. Niranjan

Affiliation National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute Campus, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RCB VB. Performed the experiments: VB. Analyzed the data: VB RCB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RCB PU RS RN. Wrote the paper: VB RCB.