About the Authors

Abhishek Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Abhishek Kumar, Anita Bhandari

abhishek.abhishekkumar@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padova, Italy, Abteilung für Botanische Genetik und Molekularbiologie, Botanisches Institut und Botanischer Garten, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Anita Bhandari

Contributed equally to this work with: Abhishek Kumar, Anita Bhandari

Affiliation International Graduate School (IHI) Zittau, Zittau, Germany

Rahul Sinha

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Pankaj Goyal

Affiliation Klinik und Poliklinik für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe, Universitätsklinikum, Der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Alessandro Grapputo

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padova, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK. Performed the experiments: AK AB RS PG AG. Analyzed the data: AK AB RS PG AG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK AB RS PG AG. Wrote the paper: AK. Assembled the final version of the manuscript: AK AB RS PG AG.