About the Authors

Veluchamy Prabhawathi

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

Thulasinathan Boobalan

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

Ponnurengam Malliappan Sivakumar

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

Mukesh Doble

mukeshd@iitm.ac.in

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VP. Performed the experiments: VP TB. Analyzed the data: VP MD PMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MD. Wrote the paper: VP.