About the Authors

Sumanti Gupta

Affiliation Plant Molecular and Cellular Genetics Section, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Dipankar Chakraborti

Current address: Post Graduate Department of Biotechnology, St Xavier's College, Kolkata, India

Affiliation Plant Molecular and Cellular Genetics Section, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Anindita Sengupta

Affiliation Plant Molecular and Cellular Genetics Section, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Debabrata Basu

Affiliation Botany Department, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Sampa Das

sampa@bic.boseinst.ernet.in

Affiliation Plant Molecular and Cellular Genetics Section, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG DC DB SD. Performed the experiments: SG AS. Analyzed the data: SG DC AS DB SD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DB SD. Wrote the paper: SG DC DB SD.