About the Authors

Nivedita Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Nivedita Singh, Debjani Roy Choudhury

Affiliation Division of Genomic Resources, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Debjani Roy Choudhury

Contributed equally to this work with: Nivedita Singh, Debjani Roy Choudhury

Affiliation Division of Genomic Resources, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Amit Kumar Singh

Affiliation Division of Genomic Resources, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Sundeep Kumar

Affiliation Division of Genomic Resources, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Kalyani Srinivasan

Affiliation Germplasm Conservation Division, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, Delhi, India

R. K. Tyagi

Affiliation Germplasm Conservation Division, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, Delhi, India

N. K. Singh

Affiliation National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Rakesh Singh

singhnbpgr@yahoo.com

Affiliation Division of Genomic Resources, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS NKS. Performed the experiments: NS DRC. Analyzed the data: RS SK AKS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS DRC KS RKT. Wrote the manuscript: RS AKS NKS.