About the Authors

Vokkaliga Thammegowda Harshavardhan

Affiliation Research Group Abiotic Stress Genomics, Interdisciplinary Center for Crop Plant Research (IZN), Halle (Saale), Germany, and Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Stadt Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany

Le Van Son

Affiliations Research Group Gene Regulation, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Stadt Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany, National Key Laboratory of Gene Technology, Institute of Biotechnology Vietnam, Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

Christiane Seiler

Affiliation Research Group Abiotic Stress Genomics, Interdisciplinary Center for Crop Plant Research (IZN), Halle (Saale), Germany, and Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Stadt Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany

Astrid Junker

Affiliation Research Group Heterosis, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Stadt Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany

Kathleen Weigelt-Fischer

Affiliation Research Group Heterosis, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Stadt Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany

Christian Klukas

Affiliation Research Group Image Analysis, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Stadt Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany

Thomas Altmann

Affiliation Research Group Heterosis, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Stadt Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany

Nese Sreenivasulu

Affiliations Research Group Abiotic Stress Genomics, Interdisciplinary Center for Crop Plant Research (IZN), Halle (Saale), Germany, and Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Stadt Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany, Grain Quality and Nutrition Center, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Metro Manila, Philippines

Helmut Bäumlein

Affiliation Research Group Gene Regulation, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Stadt Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany

Markus Kuhlmann

kuhlmann@ipk-gatersleben.de

Affiliation Research Group Abiotic Stress Genomics, Interdisciplinary Center for Crop Plant Research (IZN), Halle (Saale), Germany, and Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Stadt Seeland, OT Gatersleben, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS HB MK TA. Performed the experiments: VTH CS LVS KWF. Analyzed the data: AJ CK. Wrote the paper: MK AJ TA.