**Author details**

Prashant Kaushik1,2\*, Opinder Singh Sandhu3 , Navjot Singh Brar4 , Vivek Kumar5 , Gurdeep Singh Malhi<sup>5</sup> , Hari Kesh6 and Ishan Saini<sup>7</sup>

1 Instituto de Conservación y Mejora de la Agrodiversidad Valenciana, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

2 Nagano University, Nagano, Japan

3 Department of Soil Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India

4 Department of Vegetable Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India

5 Department of Agronomy, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India

6 Department of Plant Breeding, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, India

7 Department of Botany, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India

\*Address all correspondence to: prakau@doctor.upv.es

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