About the Authors

Ronny Völz

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

ronny.volz@kaust.edu.sa (RV); heribert.hirt@kaust.edu.sa (HH)

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

Soon-Kap Kim

Roles Formal analysis

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

Jianing Mi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

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

Kiruthiga G. Mariappan

Roles Formal analysis

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

Xiujie Guo

Roles Formal analysis

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

Jean Bigeard

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Institute of Plant Sciences Paris Saclay IPS2, CNRS, INRA, Université Paris-Sud, Université Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay IPS2, Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cité, Orsay, France

Santiago Alejandro

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Institute of Plant Sciences Paris Saclay IPS2, CNRS, INRA, Université Paris-Sud, Université Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay IPS2, Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cité, Orsay, France

Delphine Pflieger

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, Inserm, BIG-BGE, Grenoble, France, CNRS, BIG-BGE, Grenoble, France

Naganand Rayapuram

Roles Formal analysis

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

Salim Al-Babili

Roles Validation

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

Heribert Hirt

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

ronny.volz@kaust.edu.sa (RV); heribert.hirt@kaust.edu.sa (HH)

Affiliations Desert Agriculture, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris Saclay IPS2, CNRS, INRA, Université Paris-Sud, Université Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay IPS2, Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cité, Orsay, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.