About the Authors

Moses M. Muraya

Contributed equally to this work with: Moses M. Muraya, Thomas Schmutzer

Affiliations Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Corrensstraße 3, D-06466, Stadt Seeland, Germany, Department of Plant Science, Chuka University, P.O. Box, 109–60400, Chuka, Kenya

Thomas Schmutzer

Contributed equally to this work with: Moses M. Muraya, Thomas Schmutzer

schmutzr@ipk-gatersleben.de

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Corrensstraße 3, D-06466, Stadt Seeland, Germany

Chris Ulpinnis

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Corrensstraße 3, D-06466, Stadt Seeland, Germany

Uwe Scholz

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Corrensstraße 3, D-06466, Stadt Seeland, Germany

Thomas Altmann

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Corrensstraße 3, D-06466, Stadt Seeland, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TA US TS MMM. Performed the experiments: MMM TS. Analyzed the data: TS MMM CU US TA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS MMM. Wrote the paper: TS MMM US TA. Developed the bioinformatics’ approaches: TS.