ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The first author is thankful to Director ICAR-CIRG for providing
laboratory facilities to conduct the doctoral thesis work at CIRG. The
author is extremely grateful and acknowledges the Department of
Biotechnology, GLA University, Mathura, for allowing working in the
doctoral program. The author is also thankful to the DBT-Twinning
project for providing the necessary funding to work on this topic.
Data availability statement: The data that support the findings
of this study are available from the corresponding author upon
reasonable request.