About the Authors

R. Dhanya

Affiliation Agroprocessing and Natural Products Division, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), CSIR, Industrial Estate, Pappanamcode, Thiruvananthapuram-695019, Kerala, India

K. B. Arun

Affiliation Agroprocessing and Natural Products Division, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), CSIR, Industrial Estate, Pappanamcode, Thiruvananthapuram-695019, Kerala, India

V. M. Nisha

Affiliation Agroprocessing and Natural Products Division, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), CSIR, Industrial Estate, Pappanamcode, Thiruvananthapuram-695019, Kerala, India

H. P. Syama

Affiliation Agroprocessing and Natural Products Division, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), CSIR, Industrial Estate, Pappanamcode, Thiruvananthapuram-695019, Kerala, India

P. Nisha

Affiliation Agroprocessing and Natural Products Division, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), CSIR, Industrial Estate, Pappanamcode, Thiruvananthapuram-695019, Kerala, India

T. R. Santhosh Kumar

Affiliation Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram-695012, Kerala, India

P. Jayamurthy

jayamurthy@live.com

Affiliation Agroprocessing and Natural Products Division, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), CSIR, Industrial Estate, Pappanamcode, Thiruvananthapuram-695019, Kerala, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RD PJ TRSK PN. Performed the experiments: RD PJ KBA HPS. Analyzed the data: RD VMN PJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HPS VMN TRSK. Wrote the paper: RD PJ PN.