About the Authors

Omid Safronov

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Jürgen Kreuzwieser

Affiliation Institute of Forest Sciences, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Georg Haberer

Affiliation Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Plant Genome and Systems Biology, Neuherberg, Germany

Mohamed S. Alyousif

Affiliation College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Waltraud Schulze

Affiliation Institute for Physiology and Biotechnology of Plants, Plant Systems Biology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Naif Al-Harbi

Affiliation College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Leila Arab

Affiliation Institute of Forest Sciences, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Peter Ache

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Thomas Stempfl

Affiliation Center of Excellence for Fluorescent Bioanalytics (KFB), University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Joerg Kruse

Affiliation Institute of Forest Sciences, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Klaus X. Mayer

Affiliations Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Plant Genome and Systems Biology, Neuherberg, Germany, College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Rainer Hedrich

Affiliations Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Heinz Rennenberg

Affiliations Institute of Forest Sciences, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Jarkko Salojärvi

Contributed equally to this work with: Jarkko Salojärvi, Jaakko Kangasjärvi

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Jaakko Kangasjärvi

Contributed equally to this work with: Jarkko Salojärvi, Jaakko Kangasjärvi

jaakko.kangasjarvi@helsinki.fi

Affiliations Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RH HR. Data curation: GH OS J. Salojärvi. Formal analysis: GH OS J. Salojärvi. Funding acquisition: MSA NA RH HR KXM J. Kangasjärvi. Investigation: J. Kreuzwieser LA J. Kruse PA TS. Methodology: GH KXM J. Salojärvi TS. Project administration: HR RH JS J. Kangasjärvi. Resources: WS J. Kreuzwieser GH. Software: JS OS. Supervision: HR RH KXM JS J. Kangasjärvi. Visualization: OS JS. Writing – original draft: JS. Writing – review & editing: JS J. Kangasjärvi OS.