About the Authors

Kuldeep Kandarkar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Centre for Plant Breeding and Genetics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Viswanathan Palaniappan

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Subhrajit Satpathy

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Anilkumar Vemula

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Ravikesavan Rajasekaran

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Prabhakaran Jeyakumar

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Crop Physiology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Nakkeeran Sevugaperumal

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Shashi Kumar Gupta

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

shashikumar.gupta@icrisat.org

Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.