About the Authors

Manisha Mangal

Contributed equally to this work with: Manisha Mangal, Jameel Akhtar

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

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

Jameel Akhtar

Contributed equally to this work with: Manisha Mangal, Jameel Akhtar

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Plant Quarantine, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, India

Arpita Srivastava

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Pardeep Kumar

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Division of Plant Quarantine, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, India

Sushma Sagar

Roles Data curation, Investigation

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

Theivanai Murugan

Roles Writing – original draft

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

Purva Khandelwal

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

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

Shilpi Kumari

Roles Data curation, Investigation

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

Vinod Kumar Sharma

Roles Writing – review & editing, Methodology, Conceptualization

vkmodgil@gmail.com (VKS); j.rana@cgiar.org (JCR)

Affiliation Division of Germplasm Evaluation, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi

Jai Chand Rana

Roles Writing – review & editing

vkmodgil@gmail.com (VKS); j.rana@cgiar.org (JCR)

Affiliation The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.