About the Authors

Yoshiaki Ueda

Current address: Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology, Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES) – Plant Nutrition, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Katharina Frindte

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES) – Molecular Biology of the Rhizosphere, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Claudia Knief

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES) – Molecular Biology of the Rhizosphere, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Md Ashrafuzzaman

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES) – Plant Nutrition, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Michael Frei

mfrei@uni-bonn.de

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES) – Plant Nutrition, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MF CK. Formal analysis: YU. Funding acquisition: MF. Investigation: YU KF MA. Resources: MF. Supervision: MF CK. Writing – original draft: YU. Writing – review & editing: MF CK.