About the Authors

Fengying Duan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Current address: Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Affiliation Molecular Plant Nutrition, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Corrensstr, Gatersleben, Germany

Ricardo F. H. Giehl

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Plant Nutrition, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Corrensstr, Gatersleben, Germany

Niko Geldner

Roles Conceptualization, Resources

Affiliation Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Biophore, UNIL-Sorge, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

David E. Salt

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Plant Integrative Biology, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, United Kingdom

Nicolaus von Wirén

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

vonwiren@ipk-gatersleben.de.

Affiliation Molecular Plant Nutrition, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Corrensstr, Gatersleben, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.