The authors acknowledge financial support from the Higher
Education Research Promotion and National Research
University Project of Thailand, Office of the Higher
Education Commission, through the Food and Functional
Food Research Cluster of Khon Kaen University and
support in part by the Plant Breeding Research Center for
Sustainable Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kaen
University and the Thailand Research Fund (TRF), the
Commission for Higher Education (CHE) and Khon Kaen
University (KKU) supported this work by providing
financial supports through the Distinguished Research
Professor Grant of Professor Dr. Aran Patanothai. An
acknowledgement is extended to Khon Kaen University
and the faculty of Agriculture for providing financial
support for manuscript preparation activities. We also thank
Miss Hannah Wright for assistance with editing our draft
paper