About the Authors

Chandra Bhan Yadav

Contributed equally to this work with: Chandra Bhan Yadav, Priyanka Bhareti

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

Priyanka Bhareti

Contributed equally to this work with: Chandra Bhan Yadav, Priyanka Bhareti

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India

Mehanathan Muthamilarasan

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

Minakshi Mukherjee

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

Yusuf Khan

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

Pushpendra Rathi

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, 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. Performed the experiments: CBY PB M. Muthamilarasan M. Mukherjee YK PR. Analyzed the data: MP CBY PB PR M. Muthamilarasan. Wrote the paper: M. Muthamilarasan CBY MP.