About the Authors

Maria Pogoda

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany

Fang Liu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany

Dimitar Douchkov

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany

Armin Djamei

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany

Jochen C. Reif

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany

Patrick Schweizer

† Deceased.

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany

Albert W. Schulthess

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

schulthess@ipk-gatersleben.de

Affiliation Department of Breeding Research, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.