About the Authors

Anja Buhtz

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Theodor-Echtermeyer-Weg 1, 14979 Grossbeeren, Germany

Katja Witzel

witzel@igzev.de

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Theodor-Echtermeyer-Weg 1, 14979 Grossbeeren, Germany

Nadine Strehmel

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Weinberg 3, 06120 Halle/Saale, Germany

Jörg Ziegler

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Weinberg 3, 06120 Halle/Saale, Germany

Steffen Abel

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Weinberg 3, 06120 Halle/Saale, Germany

Rita Grosch

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Theodor-Echtermeyer-Weg 1, 14979 Grossbeeren, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB KW RG. Performed the experiments: AB KW NS JZ. Analyzed the data: AB KW NS JZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SA RG. Wrote the paper: AB KW NS.