About the Authors

Mat Yunus Abdul Masani

masani@mpob.gov.my (MYAM); dpruefer@uni-muenster.de (DP)

Affiliation Advanced Biotechnology and Breeding Centre, Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Gundula A. Noll

Affiliation Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Münster, Germany

Ghulam Kadir Ahmad Parveez

Affiliation Advanced Biotechnology and Breeding Centre, Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ravigadevi Sambanthamurthi

Affiliation Advanced Biotechnology and Breeding Centre, Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Dirk Prüfer

masani@mpob.gov.my (MYAM); dpruefer@uni-muenster.de (DP)

Affiliations Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Münster, Germany, Fraunhofer Institut für Molekularbiologie und Angewandte Ökologie, Münster, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DP GKAP GN. Performed the experiments: MYAM. Analyzed the data: MYAM GN DP. Wrote the paper: MYAM GKAP RS DP.