About the Authors

Vandana Jaiswal

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, India

Vijay Gahlaut

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, India

Saloni Mathur

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Centre for Plant Genomics, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

Priyanka Agarwal

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, India

Manoj Kumar Khandelwal

Current address: Ministry of Environment and Forests, Paryavaran Bhavan, New Delhi, India

Affiliation Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, India

Jitendra Paul Khurana

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Centre for Plant Genomics, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

Akhilesh Kumar Tyagi

Affiliation National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India

Harindra Singh Balyan

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, India

Pushpendra Kumar Gupta

pkgupta36@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VJ HSB PKG. Performed the experiments: VJ VG SM PA JPK AKT. Analyzed the data: VJ VG MK. Wrote the paper: VJ HSB PKG.