About the Authors

Ankur R. Bhardwaj

Contributed equally to this work with: Ankur R. Bhardwaj, Gopal Joshi

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Gopal Joshi

Contributed equally to this work with: Ankur R. Bhardwaj, Gopal Joshi

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Ritu Pandey

Affiliation Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi, South Campus, Delhi, India

Bharti Kukreja

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Shailendra Goel

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Arun Jagannath

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Amar Kumar

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Surekha Katiyar-Agarwal

agarwalm71@gmail.com (MA); katiyars@south.du.ac.in (SK)

Affiliation Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi, South Campus, Delhi, India

Manu Agarwal

agarwalm71@gmail.com (MA); katiyars@south.du.ac.in (SK)

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA SKA. Performed the experiments: ARB RP BK. Analyzed the data: GJ ARB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG AJ AK SKA MA. Wrote the paper: ARB MA SKA. Reviewed the manuscript: SG AJ AK.