About the Authors

B. Mathi Thumilan

Contributed equally to this work with: B. Mathi Thumilan, R. S. Sajeevan

Affiliation Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK Campus, Bengaluru, Karnataka – 560 065, India

R. S. Sajeevan

Contributed equally to this work with: B. Mathi Thumilan, R. S. Sajeevan

Affiliation Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK Campus, Bengaluru, Karnataka – 560 065, India

Jyoti Biradar

Affiliation Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK Campus, Bengaluru, Karnataka – 560 065, India

T. Madhuri

Affiliation Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK Campus, Bengaluru, Karnataka – 560 065, India

Karaba N. Nataraja

Affiliation Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK Campus, Bengaluru, Karnataka – 560 065, India

Sheshshayee M. Sreeman

msshesh1@uasbangalore.edu.in

Affiliation Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK Campus, Bengaluru, Karnataka – 560 065, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SMS. Data curation: BMT RSS JB. Formal analysis: BMT RSS JB TM. Funding acquisition: SMS KNN. Investigation: SMS KNN BMT RSS JB TM. Methodology: BMT RSS. Project administration: SMS KNN. Resources: SMS KNN. Software: BMT RSS. Supervision: SMS KNN. Validation: BMT RSS JB TM. Visualization: SMS KNN. Writing – original draft: BMT RSS. Writing – review & editing: SMS KNN BMT RSS JB TM.