Plant-specific cochaperone SSR1 affects root elongation by modulating the mitochondrial iron-sulfur cluster assembly machinery

• Xuanjun Feng ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xuanjunfeng@sicau.edu.cn(XF); rongmin.zhao@utoronto.ca(RZ); xjhua@zstu.edu.cn(XH)

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, Sichuan, China, Maize Research Institute of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, Sichuan, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3800-4029

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• Yue Hu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Maize Research Institute of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, Sichuan, China

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• Tao Xie,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Secondary Metabolism and Regulation of Zhejiang Province, College of Life Sciences and Medicine, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

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• Huiling Han,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Diana Bonea,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Lijuan Zeng,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sichuan Keyuan Testing Center of Engineering Technology Co., Ltd; Chengdu, Sichuan, PR China

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• Jie Liu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2524-2278

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• Wenhan Ying,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Secondary Metabolism and Regulation of Zhejiang Province, College of Life Sciences and Medicine, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

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• Bona Mu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Yuanyuan Cai,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Secondary Metabolism and Regulation of Zhejiang Province, College of Life Sciences and Medicine, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8231-2709

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• Min Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Beijing, China

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• Yanli Lu,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, Sichuan, China

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• Rongmin Zhao ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xuanjunfeng@sicau.edu.cn(XF); rongmin.zhao@utoronto.ca(RZ); xjhua@zstu.edu.cn(XH)

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1300-5882

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• Xuejun Hua

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

  * E-mail: xuanjunfeng@sicau.edu.cn(XF); rongmin.zhao@utoronto.ca(RZ); xjhua@zstu.edu.cn(XH)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Secondary Metabolism and Regulation of Zhejiang Province, College of Life Sciences and Medicine, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9055-8416

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