About the Authors

Charu Lata

Affiliations National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, New Delhi, India, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Awdhesh Kumar Mishra

Affiliation National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India

Mehanathan Muthamilarasan

Affiliation National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India

Venkata Suresh Bonthala

Affiliation National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India

Yusuf Khan

Affiliation National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India

Manoj Prasad

manoj_prasad@nipgr.ac.in

Affiliation National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

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Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MP CL. Performed the experiments: CL AKM MM VSB YK. Analyzed the data: MP CL. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CL MM MP.