About the Authors

K. J. Senthil Kumar

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Forestry, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

M. Gokila Vani

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Forestry, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Pin-Ju Chueh

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Biotechnology, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan

Jeng-Leun Mau

Affiliations Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, National Chung Hsing University/University of California at Davis, Plant and Food Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Sheng-Yang Wang

taiwanfir@dragon.nchu.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Forestry, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, National Chung Hsing University/University of California at Davis, Plant and Food Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SYW. Performed the experiments: MGV KJSK. Analyzed the data: KJSK MGV PJC JLM. Wrote the paper: KJSK MGV PJC SYW.