About the Authors

Katrin Ehlers

Contributed equally to this work with: Katrin Ehlers, Amey S. Bhide

‡ These authors are both first authors on this work.

Affiliation Justus Liebig University, Institute of Botany, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 38, D-35392, Gießen, Germany

Amey S. Bhide

Contributed equally to this work with: Katrin Ehlers, Amey S. Bhide

‡ These authors are both first authors on this work.

Affiliation Justus Liebig University, Institute of Botany, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 38, D-35392, Gießen, Germany

Dawit G. Tekleyohans

Current address: University of Bremen, Department of Biology and Chemistry, Leobener Str. 2, D-28359, Bremen, Germany

Affiliation Justus Liebig University, Institute of Botany, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 38, D-35392, Gießen, Germany

Benjamin Wittkop

Affiliation Justus Liebig University, Department of Plant Breeding, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, D 35392, Gießen, Germany

Rod J. Snowdon

Affiliation Justus Liebig University, Department of Plant Breeding, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, D 35392, Gießen, Germany

Annette Becker

annette.becker@bot1.bio.uni-giessen.de

Affiliation Justus Liebig University, Institute of Botany, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 38, D-35392, Gießen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KE AB. Formal analysis: ASB BW. Funding acquisition: AB. Investigation: KE ASB DGT BW. Resources: RS. Supervision: AB. Validation: KE ASB. Visualization: KE. Writing – original draft: AB ASB KE DGT. Writing – review & editing: AB KE.