About the Authors

Grzegorz Żurek

These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Grasses, Legumes and Energy Plants, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute IHAR-PIB, Radzików, Błonie, Poland

Krystyna Rybka

k.rybka@ihar.edu.pl

These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute IHAR-PIB, Radzików, Błonie, Poland

Marta Pogrzeba

Affiliation Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Phytoremediation Team, Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas, Katowice, Poland

Jacek Krzyżak

Affiliation Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Phytoremediation Team, Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas, Katowice, Poland

Kamil Prokopiuk

Affiliation Department of Grasses, Legumes and Energy Plants, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute IHAR-PIB, Radzików, Błonie, Poland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GZ KR MP JK KP. Performed the experiments: GZ KR MP JK KP. Analyzed the data: GZ KR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GZ KR MP JK KP. Wrote the paper: GZ KR MP.