About the Authors

Sudarshan Dutta

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

S.DUTTA@apni.net

Affiliation African Plant Nutrition Institute, Benguérir, Morocco

Somsubhra Chakraborty

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

Affiliations Agricultural and Food Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur, Kolkata, India, IRDM Faculty Centre, RKMVERI, Kolkata, India

Rupak Goswami

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation IRDM Faculty Centre, RKMVERI, Kolkata, India

Hirak Banerjee

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Regional Research Station (CSZ), BCKV, Kakdwip, India

Kaushik Majumdar

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation African Plant Nutrition Institute, Benguérir, Morocco

Bin Li

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Experimental Statistics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

M. L. Jat

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.