About the Authors

Amol N. Nankar

Contributed equally to this work with: Amol N. Nankar, Velichka Todorova

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nankaramol@gmail.com, nankar@cpsbb.eu

Affiliation Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology (CPSBB), Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Velichka Todorova

Contributed equally to this work with: Amol N. Nankar, Velichka Todorova

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Maritsa Vegetable Crops Research Institute (MVCRI), Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Ivanka Tringovska

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Maritsa Vegetable Crops Research Institute (MVCRI), Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Gancho Pasev

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Maritsa Vegetable Crops Research Institute (MVCRI), Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Vesela Radeva-Ivanova

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Maritsa Vegetable Crops Research Institute (MVCRI), Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Valentina Ivanova

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology (CPSBB), Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Dimitrina Kostova

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology (CPSBB), Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Competing Interests

All authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.