About the Authors

Raj K. Pasam

Contributed equally to this work with: Raj K. Pasam, Rajiv Sharma

Current address: Department of Environment and Primary Industries, Biosciences Research Division, Agriculture Productivity, 3083 Victoria, Australia

Affiliation Department of Genebank, Leibniz-Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany

Rajiv Sharma

Contributed equally to this work with: Raj K. Pasam, Rajiv Sharma

rajiv.sharma@hutton.ac.uk (RS); graner@ipk-gatersleben (AG); benjamin.kilian@bayer.com (BK)

Current address: University of Dundee at The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, United Kingdom

Affiliation Department of Genebank, Leibniz-Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany

Alexander Walther

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden

Hakan Özkan

Affiliation Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Cukurova, 01330 Adana, Turkey

Andreas Graner

rajiv.sharma@hutton.ac.uk (RS); graner@ipk-gatersleben (AG); benjamin.kilian@bayer.com (BK)

Affiliation Department of Genebank, Leibniz-Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany

Benjamin Kilian

rajiv.sharma@hutton.ac.uk (RS); graner@ipk-gatersleben (AG); benjamin.kilian@bayer.com (BK)

Current address: R&D – Trait Research, Bayer CropScience NV, 9052 Ghent, Belgium

Affiliation Department of Genebank, Leibniz-Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BK AG RKP. Performed the experiments: RKP RS AW HÖ BK. Analyzed the data: RKP RS AW BK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS AW HÖ. Wrote the paper: BK RKP AW RS AG.