About the Authors

Yongxiu Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yongxiu Liu, Regina Geyer, Martijn van Zanten

Affiliations Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany, Beijing Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Beijing, China

Regina Geyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Yongxiu Liu, Regina Geyer, Martijn van Zanten

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

Martijn van Zanten

Contributed equally to this work with: Yongxiu Liu, Regina Geyer, Martijn van Zanten

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

Annaick Carles

Affiliation Freiburg Initiative for Systems Biology, Center for Biological Systems Analysis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Yong Li

Affiliation Freiburg Initiative for Systems Biology, Center for Biological Systems Analysis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Anja Hörold

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

Steven van Nocker

Affiliation Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Wim J. J. Soppe

soppe@mpiz-koeln.mpg.de

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y. Liu MvZ SvN WJJS. Performed the experiments: RG Y. Liu MvZ AH. Analyzed the data: Y. Liu MvZ AC Y. Li RG WJJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SvN. Wrote the paper: MvZ WJJS.