About the Authors

Mahendar Thudi

Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Hari D. Upadhyaya

Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Abhishek Rathore

Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Pooran Mal Gaur

Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Lakshmanan Krishnamurthy

Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Manish Roorkiwal

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

Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Sushil Kumar Chaturvedi

Affiliation Indian Institute of Pulses Research (IIPR), Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

Partha Sarathi Basu

Affiliation Indian Institute of Pulses Research (IIPR), Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

N. V. P. R. Gangarao

Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Nairobi, Kenya

Asnake Fikre

Affiliation Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Debre Zeit, Ethiopia

Paul Kimurto

Affiliation Egerton University (EU), Egerton, Kenya

Prakash C. Sharma

Affiliation Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India

M. S. Sheshashayee

Affiliation University of Agricultural Sciences- Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Satoshi Tobita

Affiliation Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS), Tsukuba, Japan

Junichi Kashiwagi

Affiliation Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Osamu Ito

Affiliation United Nations University, Yokohama, Japan

Andrzej Killian

Affiliation DArT Pty. Ltd., Yarralumla, Australia

Rajeev Kumar Varshney

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.