About the Authors

Mahendar Thudi

Contributed equally to this work with: Mahendar Thudi, Abhishek Bohra

Affiliation Grain Legumes Research Program, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India

Abhishek Bohra

Contributed equally to this work with: Mahendar Thudi, Abhishek Bohra

Affiliations Grain Legumes Research Program, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India, Department of Genetics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

Spurthi N. Nayak

Affiliations Grain Legumes Research Program, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India, Department of Genetics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

Nicy Varghese

Affiliation Grain Legumes Research Program, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India

Trushar M. Shah

Affiliation Grain Legumes Research Program, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India

R. Varma Penmetsa

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Nepolean Thirunavukkarasu

Affiliation Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

Srivani Gudipati

Affiliation Grain Legumes Research Program, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India

Pooran M. Gaur

Affiliation Grain Legumes Research Program, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India

Pawan L. Kulwal

Affiliation State Level Biotechnology Centre, Mahatma Phule Agricultural University, Ahmednagar, India

Hari D. Upadhyaya

Affiliation Grain Legumes Research Program, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India

Polavarapu B. KaviKishor

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

Peter Winter

Affiliation GenXPro GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Günter Kahl

Affiliation Molecular BioSciences, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Christopher D. Town

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Andrzej Kilian

Affiliation DArT Pty. Ltd., Yarralumla, Australia

Douglas R. Cook

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Rajeev K. Varshney

r.k.varshney@cgiar.org

Affiliations Grain Legumes Research Program, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India, CGIAR Generation Challenge Programme (GCP), CIMMYT, Mexico DF, Mexico

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Dr. Andrzej Kilian is the founder and Director of DArT P/L. Dr. Peter Winter is the Managing Director for GenXPro. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RKV. Performed the experiments: MT AB SNN NV SG AK TMS. Analyzed the data: MT AB SNN NT PLK TMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PMG HDU PBKK PW GK RVP CDT AK DRC. Wrote the paper: RKV MT AB.