About the Authors

Kannan Chithrameenal

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India

Ganesh Alagarasan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India

Muthurajan Raveendran

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India

Sabariappan Robin

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rice, Centre for Plant Breeding and Genetics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India

Suresh Meena

Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India

Ayyasamy Ramanathan

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rice, Centre for Plant Breeding and Genetics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India

Jegadeesan Ramalingam

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ramalingam.j@tnau.ac.in

Affiliation Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.