About the Authors

Uschi Diestel

Affiliation Lehrstuhl fuer Biotechnik, Department of Biology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Marcus Resch

Affiliation Lehrstuhl fuer Biotechnik, Department of Biology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Kathrin Meinhardt

Affiliation Lehrstuhl fuer Biotechnik, Department of Biology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Sigrid Weiler

Affiliation Lehrstuhl fuer Biotechnik, Department of Biology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Tina V. Hellmann

Affiliation Julius-von-Sachs-Institut fuer Biowissenschaften, Lehrstuhl fuer Botanik I, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Thomas D. Mueller

Affiliation Julius-von-Sachs-Institut fuer Biowissenschaften, Lehrstuhl fuer Botanik I, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Joachim Nickel

Affiliation Lehrstuhl fuer Tissue Engineering und Regenerative Medizin, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Jutta Eichler

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Yves A. Muller

ymuller@biologie.uni-erlangen.de

Affiliation Lehrstuhl fuer Biotechnik, Department of Biology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UD MR TDM JE YAM. Performed the experiments: UD MR KM SW TVH JN. Analyzed the data: UD TDM JN JE YAM. Wrote the paper: UD TDM YAM.