About the Authors

Anjali Shukla

Affiliation Division of Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Post Bag No- 01, Jakhini (Shahanshahpur), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh-221 305, India

V. K. Singh

Affiliation Centre for Bioinformatics, School of Biotechnology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221 005, India

D. R. Bharadwaj

Affiliation Division of Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Post Bag No- 01, Jakhini (Shahanshahpur), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh-221 305, India

Rajesh Kumar

Affiliation Division of Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Post Bag No- 01, Jakhini (Shahanshahpur), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh-221 305, India

Ashutosh Rai

Affiliation Division of Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Post Bag No- 01, Jakhini (Shahanshahpur), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh-221 305, India

A. K. Rai

Affiliation Centre of Advanced Studies, Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221 005, India

Raja Mugasimangalam

Affiliation Genotypic Technology (P) Ltd., Bangalore 560094, Karnataka, India

Sriram Parameswaran

Affiliation Genotypic Technology (P) Ltd., Bangalore 560094, Karnataka, India

Major Singh

singhvns@gmail.com

Affiliation Division of Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Post Bag No- 01, Jakhini (Shahanshahpur), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh-221 305, India

P. S. Naik

Affiliation Division of Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Post Bag No- 01, Jakhini (Shahanshahpur), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh-221 305, India

Competing Interests

RM & SP are employees of Genotypic Technology (P) Ltd. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS AS VKS RK PSN. Performed the experiments: DRB AS MS AR. Analyzed the data: VKS AS SP AR RM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS DRB AS AR VKS. Wrote the paper: VKS RK AR AS AK MS.