About the Authors

Ravi C. Nirmal

Affiliation Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, St Lucia, Qld, Australia

Agnelo Furtado

Contributed equally to this work with: Agnelo Furtado, Robert J. Henry

Affiliation Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, St Lucia, Qld, Australia

Colin Wrigley

Affiliation Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, St Lucia, Qld, Australia

Robert J. Henry

Contributed equally to this work with: Agnelo Furtado, Robert J. Henry

robert.henry@uq.edu.au

Affiliation Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, St Lucia, Qld, Australia

Competing Interests

Part of our funding came from Green Gold Seeds Ltd, India. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RN AF CW RH. Funding acquisition: RH. Investigation: RN AF. Methodology: RN AF CW RH. Project administration: AF RH. Supervision: AF CW RH. Writing – original draft: RN. Writing – review & editing: RN AF CW RH.