About the Authors

Sachin Ashruba Gharat

Contributed equally to this work with: Sachin Ashruba Gharat, Shaifaly Parmar

Affiliation Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, 751023, Odisha, India

Shaifaly Parmar

Contributed equally to this work with: Sachin Ashruba Gharat, Shaifaly Parmar

Affiliation Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, 751023, Odisha, India

Subodh Tambat

Affiliation Bionivid Technology Private Limited, 3rd Floor, 4C-209, 4th Cross, Near New Horizon College, Kasturi Nagar, Bangalore, 560043, Karnataka, India

Madavan Vasudevan

Affiliation Bionivid Technology Private Limited, 3rd Floor, 4C-209, 4th Cross, Near New Horizon College, Kasturi Nagar, Bangalore, 560043, Karnataka, India

Birendra Prasad Shaw

bpshaw@ils.res.in

Affiliation Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, 751023, Odisha, India

Competing Interests

Subodh Tambat and Madavan Vasudevan are employed by Bionivid Technology Private Limited. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BPS. Data curation: BPS MV. Formal analysis: BPS SAG MV. Funding acquisition: BPS. Investigation: BPS SAG SP. Methodology: BPS SAG SP. Project administration: BPS. Resources: BPS. Software: ST MV. Supervision: BPS. Validation: SAG SP. Visualization: BPS SAG. Writing – original draft: BPS. Writing – review & editing: BPS SAG MV.