**Author details**

Diptibala Rout1 , Debarchana Jena1 , Vineeta Singh<sup>2</sup> , Manish Kumar3 , Pandurang Arsode3 , Prakash Singh4 , Jawahar Lal Katara1 , Sanghamitra Samantaray1 and Ramlakhan Verma<sup>5</sup> \*

1 Crop Improvement Division, National Rice Research Institute, Odisha, India

2 Acharya Narendra Dev University of Agriculture and Technology, U.P., India

3 Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, I.Ag.Sc., Banaras Hindu University, U.P., India

4 Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Veer Kunwar Singh College of Agriculture (Bihar Agricultural University-BAU, Sabour), Bihar, India

5 Hybrid Rice Breeding, Crop Improvement Division, National Rice Research Institute, Odisha, India

\*Address all correspondence to: ram.pantvarsity@gmail.com

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