Dr Kapuganti Jagadis Gupta is a Scientist at Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, UK and currently heading a research group at National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India Dr Luis A.J. Mur is a Professor at IBERS (Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences), Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK. Dr Bhagyalakshmi Neelwarne is the Chief Scientist and Professor, currently heading the Department of Plant Cell Biotechnology at Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India.