About the Authors

Yongfang Wan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plant Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Yan Wang

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Plant Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, Triticeae Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, P. R. China

Zhiqiang Shi

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Plant Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, National Technology Innovation Center for Regional Wheat Production, Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology, and Ecology and Production in Southern China, Ministry of Agriculture, National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, P. R. China

Doris Rentsch

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Bern, Molecular Plant Physiology, Bern, Switzerland

Jane L. Ward

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Plant Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Kirsty Hassall

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Computational and Analytical Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Caroline A. Sparks

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Plant Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Alison K. Huttly

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Plant Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Peter Buchner

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Plant Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Stephen Powers

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Computational and Analytical Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Peter R. Shewry

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plant Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Malcolm J. Hawkesford

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

malcolm.hawkesford@rothamsted.ac.uk

Affiliation Plant Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.