About the Authors

Bhimana Gautami

Contributed equally to this work with: Bhimana Gautami, Daniel Foncéka

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Genomics, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India

Daniel Foncéka

Contributed equally to this work with: Bhimana Gautami, Daniel Foncéka

Affiliation UMR Développement et Amélioration des plantes, Centre de coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Montpellier, France

Manish K. Pandey

Affiliations Center of Excellence in Genomics, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia (UGA), Tifton, Georgia, United States of America, Crop Protection and Management Research Unit, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Tifton, Georgia, United States of America

Márcio C. Moretzsohn

Affiliation Plant Genetics Lab, EMBRAPA Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasilia, Brazil

Venkataswamy Sujay

Affiliations Center of Excellence in Genomics, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS-D), Dharwad, India

Hongde Qin

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia (UGA), Tifton, Georgia, United States of America, Cash Crop Research Institute, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences (HAAS), Wuhan, Hubei, China

Yanbin Hong

Affiliation Crops Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences (GAAS), Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Issa Faye

Affiliation Centre National de Recherche Agronomique (CNRA), Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles (ISRA), Bambey, Sénégal

Xiaoping Chen

Affiliation Crops Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences (GAAS), Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Amindala BhanuPrakash

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Genomics, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India

Trushar M. Shah

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Genomics, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India

Makanahally V. C. Gowda

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS-D), Dharwad, India

Shyam N. Nigam

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Genomics, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India

Xuanqiang Liang

Affiliation Crops Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences (GAAS), Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Dave A. Hoisington

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Genomics, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India

Baozhu Guo

Affiliation Crop Protection and Management Research Unit, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Tifton, Georgia, United States of America

David J. Bertioli

Affiliation Genetics Department, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil

Jean-Francois Rami

Affiliation UMR Développement et Amélioration des plantes, Centre de coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Montpellier, France

Rajeev K. Varshney

r.k.varshney@cgiar.org

Affiliations Center of Excellence in Genomics, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India, Crops Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences (GAAS), Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Theme- Comparative and Applied Genomics, CGIAR Generation Challenge Programme (GCP), CIMMYT, Mexico, Mexico

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RKV. Performed the experiments: B. Gautami DF MKP. Analyzed the data: B. Gautami MCM DJB JFR RKV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VS HQ YH IF XC AB TMS MVCG SNN XL DAH B. Guo DJB JFR RKV. Wrote the paper: RKV B. Gautami MKP DF MCM DJB JFR.