About the Authors
- Anjali Shukla
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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
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Affiliation Centre for Bioinformatics, School of Biotechnology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221 005, India
- D. R. Bharadwaj
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Affiliation Division of Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Post Bag No- 01, Jakhini (Shahanshahpur), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh-221 305, India
- Rajesh Kumar
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Affiliation Division of Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Post Bag No- 01, Jakhini (Shahanshahpur), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh-221 305, India
- Ashutosh Rai
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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
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Affiliation Centre of Advanced Studies, Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221 005, India
- Raja Mugasimangalam
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Affiliation Genotypic Technology (P) Ltd., Bangalore 560094, Karnataka, India
- Sriram Parameswaran
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Affiliation Genotypic Technology (P) Ltd., Bangalore 560094, Karnataka, India
- Major Singh
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* E-mail: 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
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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.