About the Authors

Md. Arifuzzaman

Contributed equally to this work with: Md. Arifuzzaman, Süleyman Günal

Affiliation University of Bonn, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Genetics and Biotechnology Unit, Katzenburgweg 5, 53115, Bonn, Germany

Süleyman Günal

Contributed equally to this work with: Md. Arifuzzaman, Süleyman Günal

Affiliation University of Bonn, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Genetics and Biotechnology Unit, Katzenburgweg 5, 53115, Bonn, Germany

Annemarie Bungartz

Affiliation University of Bonn, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Genetics and Biotechnology Unit, Katzenburgweg 5, 53115, Bonn, Germany

Shumaila Muzammil

Affiliation University of Bonn, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Genetics and Biotechnology Unit, Katzenburgweg 5, 53115, Bonn, Germany

Nazanin P. Afsharyan

Affiliation University of Bonn, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Genetics and Biotechnology Unit, Katzenburgweg 5, 53115, Bonn, Germany

Jens Léon

Affiliation University of Bonn, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Genetics and Biotechnology Unit, Katzenburgweg 5, 53115, Bonn, Germany

Ali Ahmad Naz

a.naz@uni-bonn.de

Affiliation University of Bonn, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Crop Genetics and Biotechnology Unit, Katzenburgweg 5, 53115, Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AAN JL. Performed the experiments: MA SG AB SM NPA. Analyzed the data: MA SG JL AAN. Wrote the paper: AAN MA SG.