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Affiliations

• ¹ School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom; Department of Biotechnology, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore 641004, India. Electronic address: d.pramanik@leeds.ac.uk.
• ² Department of Biotechnology, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore 641004, India.
• ³ School of Geography, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.
• ⁴ Department of Biotechnology, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore 641004, India; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore 641 022, India.
• ⁵ School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.
• ⁶ Bioremediation Laboratory, School of Biosciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore 632014, India.