About the Authors

Dharmendra Singh

dsingh_gen@iari.res.in (DS); rajendra.singh_phyto@yahoo.com (RS); madanpal@yahoo.com (MP)

Affiliation Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

Chandan Kumar Singh

Affiliation Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

Shanti Kumari

Affiliation Division of Genetics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

Ram Sewak Singh Tomar

Affiliation ICAR-National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, India

Sourabh Karwa

Affiliation Division of Plant Physiology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

Rajendra Singh

dsingh_gen@iari.res.in (DS); rajendra.singh_phyto@yahoo.com (RS); madanpal@yahoo.com (MP)

Affiliation Division of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

Raja Bahadur Singh

Affiliation ICAR-All India Co-ordinated Research Project on Salt affected Soil and Saline Use in Irrigation Water in Agriculture, Raja Balwant Singh College, Bichpuri, Agra, India

Susheel Kumar Sarkar

Affiliation ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistical Research Institute, New Delhi, India

Madan Pal

dsingh_gen@iari.res.in (DS); rajendra.singh_phyto@yahoo.com (RS); madanpal@yahoo.com (MP)

Affiliation Division of Plant Physiology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DS RS MP. Data curation: DS CKS RS S. Karwa RBS SKS RSST S. Kumari. Formal analysis: DS CKS RS S. Karwa RBS SKS RSST S. Kumari. Funding acquisition: DS. Investigation: DS CKS RS S. Karwa. Methodology: DS. Project administration: DS. Resources: DS RS MP. Software: RSST SKS. Supervision: DS. Validation: DS. Visualization: DS CKS. Writing – original draft: DS CKS RS MP. Writing – review & editing: DS CKS RS MP.