About the Authors

Ramesh Katam

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Ramesh.katam@famu.edu (RK); krreddy@pss.msstate.edu (KRR)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Sedigheh Shokri

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America, Department of Horticulture Sciences, College of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Nitya Murthy

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America, Kentucky College of Optometry, University of Pikeville, Pikeville, Kentucky, United States of America

Shardendu K. Singh

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Mississippi State University, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States of America

Prashanth Suravajhala

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Bioclues.org, Hyderabad, India, Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur, India

Mudassar Nawaz Khan

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering, University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan

Mahya Bahmani

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Biology, School of Science, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Affiliation Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, College of Agricultural Sciences & Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Katsumi Sakata

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Life Science and Informatics, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Maebashi City, Gunma, Japan

Kambham Raja Reddy

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Ramesh.katam@famu.edu (RK); krreddy@pss.msstate.edu (KRR)

Affiliation Mississippi State University, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.