About the Authors

Marc Hanikenne

Contributed equally to this work with: Marc Hanikenne, Juergen Kroymann

Affiliation Functional Genomics and Plant Molecular Imaging, Center for Protein Engineering (CIP), Department of Life Sciences, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Juergen Kroymann

Contributed equally to this work with: Marc Hanikenne, Juergen Kroymann

Affiliation Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris-Sud/CNRS, Orsay, France

Aleksandra Trampczynska

Current address: Arysta LifeScience Polska Sp z o. o., Warszawa, Poland.

Affiliation Department of Plant Physiology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

María Bernal

Current address: Plant Nutrition Department, Estación Experimental de Aula Dei (CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain.

Affiliation Department of Plant Physiology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Patrick Motte

Affiliation Functional Genomics and Plant Molecular Imaging, Center for Protein Engineering (CIP), Department of Life Sciences, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Stephan Clemens

Affiliation Department of Plant Physiology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

Ute Krämer

ute.kraemer@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Affiliation Department of Plant Physiology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UK JK MH. Performed the experiments: MH UK AT MB. Analyzed the data: JK UK MH AT SC MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UK JK MH PM AT SC. Wrote the paper: UK MH JK. Provided lab space, equipment, running costs, consumables, sequencing costs: UK, PM, SC Provided guidance and supervision: UK, JK, SC, PM Conceived, initiated and directed study: UK.