About the Authors
- Modhumita Ghosh Dasgupta
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* E-mail: modhumitaghosh@hotmail.com
Affiliation Division of Plant Biotechnology, Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, P.B. No. 1061, R.S. Puram, Coimbatore–641002, India
- Veeramuthu Dharanishanthi
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Affiliation Division of Plant Biotechnology, Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, P.B. No. 1061, R.S. Puram, Coimbatore–641002, India
- Ishangi Agarwal
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Affiliation Genotypic Technology Private Limited, #2/13, Balaji Complex, Poojari Layout, 80, Feet Road, R. M. V. 2nd Stage, Bangalore-560094, India
- Konstantin V. Krutovsky
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Affiliations Department of Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Büsgen Institute, Georg August University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 2, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University, 2138 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-2138, United States of America, N.I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119333, Russia, Genome Research and Education Center, Siberian Federal University, 50a/2 Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk 660036, Russia
Competing Interests
Ms. Ishangi Agarwal employed in Genotypic Technology Private Limited, Bangalore, India was associated with the analysis of the sequence data and has no potential competing interest and financial disclosure. The authors declare that her authorship does not alter their adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials as detailed online in the journal homepage.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MGD KVK. Performed the experiments: MGD VD. Analyzed the data: MGD VD IA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MGD IA KVK. Wrote the paper: MGD KVK.