Priming winter wheat seeds with the bacterial quorum sensing signal N-hexanoyl-L-homoserine lactone (C6-HSL) shows potential to improve plant growth and seed yield

• Olena V. Moshynets ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Olena V. Moshynets, Lidia M. Babenko

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: moshynets@gmail.com (OM); a.spiers@abertay.ac.uk (AS)

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2209-8681

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• Lidia M. Babenko ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Olena V. Moshynets, Lidia M. Babenko

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

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• Sergiy P. Rogalsky,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation V.P. Kukhar Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

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• Olga S. Iungin,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation D.K. Zabolotny Institute of Microbiology and Virology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

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• Jessica Foster,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation School of Science, Engineering and Technology, Abertay University, Dundee, United Kingdom

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• Iryna V. Kosakivska,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

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• Geert Potters,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Antwerp Maritime Academy, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Bioscience Engineering, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Andrew J. Spiers

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: moshynets@gmail.com (OM); a.spiers@abertay.ac.uk (AS)

  Affiliation School of Science, Engineering and Technology, Abertay University, Dundee, United Kingdom

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