About the Authors

Axel de Zélicourt

Contributed equally to this work with: Axel de Zélicourt, Lukas Synek, Maged M. Saad

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Institut of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), UMR 9213/UMR1403, CNRS, INRA, Université Paris-Sud, Université d’Evry, Université Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cité, Orsay, France

Lukas Synek

Contributed equally to this work with: Axel de Zélicourt, Lukas Synek, Maged M. Saad

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

Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Maged M. Saad

Contributed equally to this work with: Axel de Zélicourt, Lukas Synek, Maged M. Saad

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

Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Hanin Alzubaidy

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Rewaa Jalal

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Yakun Xie

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Cristina Andrés-Barrao

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

Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Eleonora Rolli

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Institut of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), UMR 9213/UMR1403, CNRS, INRA, Université Paris-Sud, Université d’Evry, Université Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cité, Orsay, France

Florence Guerard

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institut of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), UMR 9213/UMR1403, CNRS, INRA, Université Paris-Sud, Université d’Evry, Université Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cité, Orsay, France

Kiruthiga G. Mariappan

Roles Data curation

Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Ihsanullah Daur

Roles Investigation

Affiliation King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Meteorology, Environment and Arid Land Agriculture, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Jean Colcombet

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Institut of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), UMR 9213/UMR1403, CNRS, INRA, Université Paris-Sud, Université d’Evry, Université Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cité, Orsay, France

Moussa Benhamed

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Institut of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), UMR 9213/UMR1403, CNRS, INRA, Université Paris-Sud, Université d’Evry, Université Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cité, Orsay, France

Thomas Depaepe

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Ghent University, Department of Physiology, Laboratory of Functional Plant Biology, Ghent, Belgium

Dominique Van Der Straeten

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Ghent University, Department of Physiology, Laboratory of Functional Plant Biology, Ghent, Belgium

Heribert Hirt

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

heribert.hirt@kaust.edu.sa

Affiliations King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Institut of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), UMR 9213/UMR1403, CNRS, INRA, Université Paris-Sud, Université d’Evry, Université Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cité, Orsay, France

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests. Axel de Zelicourt, Maged Saad and Heribert Hirt have patented the beneficial effect of SA187 on plant growth. This is falling under the patent application: WO 2017125894 A1, Issue Date: 27-Jul-2017, Submitted date: 2016-01-21.