1 Retraction note to: J Biosci (2020) 45:32 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12038-020-0009-x

The Editor has retracted this article (Banerjee 2020) following an investigation conducted by the Indian Academy of Science which found overlap in text and images without proper attribution with the Ph.D. thesis of Dr. Priyanka Dubey (Dubey 2018). In addition to this, it was found that the affiliation stated in the article was not where the research was conducted. Because of these issues, the Editor has concluded that the results are not reliable. The author does not agree to this retraction.