About the Authors

Ramanna Hema

Affiliation Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, India

Ramu S. Vemanna

Affiliation Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, India

Shivakumar Sreeramulu

Current address: Metahelix Life Sciences Limited, KIADB 4th Phase, Bommasandra, Bangalore, India

Affiliation Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, India

Chandrasekhara P. Reddy

Affiliation Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, India

Muthappa Senthil-Kumar

skmuthappa@nipgr.ac.in

Affiliations Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, India, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Makarla Udayakumar

Affiliation Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RH MS-K MU. Performed the experiments: RH RSV SS MS-K. Analyzed the data: RH RSV CPR MS-K. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CPR MS-K MU. Wrote the paper: MS-K.