About the Authors

Balachiranjeevi C. H.

Contributed equally to this work with: Balachiranjeevi C. H., Bhaskar Naik S., Abhilash Kumar V.

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila, Philippines

Bhaskar Naik S.

Contributed equally to this work with: Balachiranjeevi C. H., Bhaskar Naik S., Abhilash Kumar V.

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Hyderabad, India

Abhilash Kumar V.

Contributed equally to this work with: Balachiranjeevi C. H., Bhaskar Naik S., Abhilash Kumar V.

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding, International Rice Research Institute-South Asia Hub, ICRISAT, Patancheru, India

Harika G.

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Hyderabad, India

Mahadev Swamy H. K.

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Hajira Sk

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Hyderabad, India

Dilip Kumar T.

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Hyderabad, India

Anila M.

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Hyderabad, India

Kale R. R.

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Hyderabad, India

Yugender A.

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Hyderabad, India

Pranathi K.

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Hyderabad, India

Koushik M. B. V. N.

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Hyderabad, India

Suneetha K.

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Hyderabad, India

Bhadana V. P.

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, PDU Campus, IINRG, Namkum, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

Hariprasad A. S.

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Hyderabad, India

Laha G. S.

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Hyderabad, India

Rekha G.

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Hyderabad, India

Balachandran S. M.

Roles Conceptualization, Validation

Affiliation Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Hyderabad, India

Madhav M. S.

Roles Conceptualization, Validation

Affiliation Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Hyderabad, India

Senguttuvel P.

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Hyderabad, India

Fiyaz A. R.

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Hyderabad, India

Viraktamath B. C.

Roles Funding acquisition, Validation

Affiliation Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Hyderabad, India

Giri A.

Roles Conceptualization, Validation

Affiliation Centre for Biotechnology, Institute of PG Studies and Research, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Mahaveer Marg, Hyderabad, India

Swamy B. P. M.

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila, Philippines

Jauhar Ali

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

rms_28@rediffmail.com (SRM); J.Ali@irri.org (JA)

Affiliation International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila, Philippines

Sundaram R. M.

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

rms_28@rediffmail.com (SRM); J.Ali@irri.org (JA)

Affiliation Biotechnology, Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Hyderabad, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.