About the Authors

Pritesh Sundar Roy

Affiliation National Rice Research Institute (formerly Central Rice Research Institute), Cuttack, Odisha, India

Gundimeda Jwala Narasimha Rao

gjnrao@gmail.com

Affiliation National Rice Research Institute (formerly Central Rice Research Institute), Cuttack, Odisha, India

Sudipta Jena

Contributed equally to this work with: Sudipta Jena, Rashmita Samal

Affiliation National Rice Research Institute (formerly Central Rice Research Institute), Cuttack, Odisha, India

Rashmita Samal

Contributed equally to this work with: Sudipta Jena, Rashmita Samal

Affiliation National Rice Research Institute (formerly Central Rice Research Institute), Cuttack, Odisha, India

Ashok Patnaik

Affiliation National Rice Research Institute (formerly Central Rice Research Institute), Cuttack, Odisha, India

Sasank Sekhar Chyau Patnaik

Affiliation National Rice Research Institute (formerly Central Rice Research Institute), Cuttack, Odisha, India

Nitiprasad Namdeorao Jambhulkar

Affiliation National Rice Research Institute (formerly Central Rice Research Institute), Cuttack, Odisha, India

Srigopal Sharma

Affiliation National Rice Research Institute (formerly Central Rice Research Institute), Cuttack, Odisha, India

Trilochan Mohapatra

Current address: ICAR, DARE, New Delhi, India

Affiliation National Rice Research Institute (formerly Central Rice Research Institute), Cuttack, Odisha, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PSR GJNR TM. Data curation: PSR GJNR TM. Formal analysis: PSR NNJ SS. Funding acquisition: GJNR TM. Investigation: PSR SJ RS. Methodology: PSR SJ RS. Project administration: GJNR. Resources: AP SSCP. Software: PSR NNJ. Supervision: GJNR TM. Validation: PSR GJNR TM. Visualization: PSR GJNR TM. Writing – original draft: PSR. Writing – review & editing: PSR GJNR TM.