About the Authors

Ilja Sonnemann

i.sonnemann@fu-berlin.de

Affiliation Freie Universitaet Berlin, Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences, Berlin, Germany

Stefan Hempel

Affiliation Freie Universitaet Berlin, Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences, Berlin, Germany

Maria Beutel

Affiliation Freie Universitaet Berlin, Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences, Berlin, Germany

Nicola Hanauer

Affiliation Freie Universitaet Berlin, Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences, Berlin, Germany

Stefan Reidinger

Affiliation University of York, Department of Biology, York, United Kingdom

Susanne Wurst

Affiliation Freie Universitaet Berlin, Dahlem Centre of Plant Sciences, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Supervised molecular work: SH. Conceived and designed the experiments: IS SW SR. Performed the experiments: IS MB NH. Analyzed the data: IS SH. Wrote the paper: IS SH SW.