About the Authors

Catarina Cardoso

Affiliation Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Tatsiana Charnikhova

Affiliation Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Muhammad Jamil

Current address: Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

Affiliation Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Pierre-Marc Delaux

Current address: Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Affiliations Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 5546, Université de Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, France, Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 5546, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Castanet-Tolosan, France

Francel Verstappen

Affiliations Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands, Centre for Biosystems Genomics, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Maryam Amini

Current address: Syngenta Seeds B.V., Enkhuizen, the Netherlands

Affiliation Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Dominique Lauressergues

Affiliations Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 5546, Université de Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, France, Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 5546, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Castanet-Tolosan, France

Carolien Ruyter-Spira

Affiliations Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands, Bioscience, Plant Research International, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Harro Bouwmeester

harro.bouwmeester@wur.nl

Affiliations Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands, Centre for Biosystems Genomics, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC TC PMD CRS HB. Performed the experiments: CC TC MJ FV MA PMD DL. Analyzed the data: CC TC MJ PMD CRS HB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC TC FV PMD DL. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CC TC CRS HB.