About the Authors

Anil Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Anil Kumar, Vishakha Pandey

ak_gupta2k@rediffmail.com, anilkumar.mbge@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Molecular biology and Genetic Engineering, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India

Vishakha Pandey

Contributed equally to this work with: Anil Kumar, Vishakha Pandey

Affiliation Department of Molecular biology and Genetic Engineering, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India

Manoj Singh

Affiliation Department of Molecular biology and Genetic Engineering, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India

Dinesh Pandey

Affiliation Department of Molecular biology and Genetic Engineering, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India

M. S. Saharan

Affiliation Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

Soma S. Marla

Affiliation Division of Genomic Resources, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AK. Data curation: VP AK SSM. Formal analysis: SSM VP. Funding acquisition: AK DP. Investigation: VP. Methodology: VP. Project administration: AK DP. Resources: AK DP. Software: SSM VP MS. Supervision: AK. Visualization: AK VP. Writing – original draft: VP. Writing – review & editing: VP AK MS DP MSS SSM.