About the Authors

Maneesha S. Saxena

Contributed equally to this work with: Maneesha S. Saxena, Deepak Bajaj

Affiliation National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Deepak Bajaj

Contributed equally to this work with: Maneesha S. Saxena, Deepak Bajaj

Affiliation National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Alice Kujur

Affiliation National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Shouvik Das

Affiliation National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Saurabh Badoni

Affiliation National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Vinod Kumar

Affiliation National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology (NRCPB), New Delhi, India

Mohar Singh

Affiliation National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), New Delhi, India

Kailash C. Bansal

Affiliation National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), New Delhi, India

Akhilesh K. Tyagi

Affiliation National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Swarup K. Parida

swarup@nipgr.ac.in

Affiliation National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKT SKP. Performed the experiments: MSS DB. Analyzed the data: AKT SKP. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MSS DB. Marker genotyping, sequencing and diversity analysis: AK SD VK. Introduced and collected wild Cicer species from the global gene bank and hot spots, helped in constitution of diversity panel: MS KCB. Participated in drafting and correcting the manuscript critically and gave the final approval of the version to be published: AKT SKP.