About the Authors

Raja Kaliyappan

Contributed equally to this work with: Raja Kaliyappan, Sriram Viswanathan

Affiliation Crop Improvement Division, ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tamil Nadu, Tiruchirapalli, India

Sriram Viswanathan

Contributed equally to this work with: Raja Kaliyappan, Sriram Viswanathan

Affiliation Crop Improvement Division, ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tamil Nadu, Tiruchirapalli, India

Backiyarani Suthanthiram

backiyarani@gmail.com

Affiliation Crop Improvement Division, ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tamil Nadu, Tiruchirapalli, India

Uma Subbaraya

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Crop Improvement Division, ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tamil Nadu, Tiruchirapalli, India

Saraswathi Marimuthu Somasundram

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Crop Improvement Division, ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tamil Nadu, Tiruchirapalli, India

Mayilvaganan Muthu

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Crop Improvement Division, ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tamil Nadu, Tiruchirapalli, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BS RK SV. Performed the experiments: RK SV. Analyzed the data: SV RK BS. Wrote the paper: SV RK BS US SMS MM.