About the Authors
- Mahendar Thudi
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Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Hari D. Upadhyaya
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Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Abhishek Rathore
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Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Pooran Mal Gaur
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Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Lakshmanan Krishnamurthy
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Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Manish Roorkiwal
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Affiliations International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India
- Spurthi N. Nayak
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Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Sushil Kumar Chaturvedi
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Affiliation Indian Institute of Pulses Research (IIPR), Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Partha Sarathi Basu
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Affiliation Indian Institute of Pulses Research (IIPR), Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
- N. V. P. R. Gangarao
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Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Nairobi, Kenya
- Asnake Fikre
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Affiliation Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Debre Zeit, Ethiopia
- Paul Kimurto
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Affiliation Egerton University (EU), Egerton, Kenya
- Prakash C. Sharma
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Affiliation Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India
- M. S. Sheshashayee
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Affiliation University of Agricultural Sciences- Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Satoshi Tobita
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Affiliation Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS), Tsukuba, Japan
- Junichi Kashiwagi
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Affiliation Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
- Osamu Ito
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Affiliation United Nations University, Yokohama, Japan
- Andrzej Killian
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Affiliation DArT Pty. Ltd., Yarralumla, Australia
- Rajeev Kumar Varshney
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* E-mail: r.k.varshney@cgiar.org
Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Competing Interests
AK is an employee of DArT Pty. Ltd. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. 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 HDU AR PMG LK MR SNN SKC PSB NVPRG AF PK PCS MSS ST JK OI AK RKV. Analyzed the data: MT AR HDU RKV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HDU PMG LK SKC NVPRG PK ST OI RKV. Wrote the paper: MT RKV.