1ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research (CICR) Regional Station, Coimbatore641 003, Tamil Nadu, India
2International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), WashingtonDC, USA
3University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad580 005Karnataka, India
4ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research (CICR), Nagpur441 108, Maharashtra, India
$Present address: ICAR-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad500 059, Telangana, India
*Corresponding authors’ e-mail: hb.santosh-icar@icar.org.in
