Fig. 1.

The soybean ‘1000 Gardens—the soybean experiment’ citizen science project (‘Die Sojapflanze’, Soybean; ‘Das Experiment’, The Experiment; ‘Ergebnisse’, Results; ‘Gärtnerblog’, Gardeners’ Blog; ‘Wer wir sind’, Who we are). a The 1000 Gardens project website (www.1000gaerten.de) and b logo of the project. c The starter pack sent to the participating citizens contained twelve bags with 100 seeds each, a bag with inoculum for Rhizobacteria inoculation, labels to mark the rows in the garden, a card to score the greenness of the leaves, and instructions on when and how to sow the seeds and to score the target traits