About the Authors

Max-Bernhard Ballhausen

Current address: Institute for Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Department of Plant Health, Großbeeren/Erfurt e.V., Großbeeren, Germany

Affiliation Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, the Netherlands

Peter Vandamme

Affiliation Laboratory for Microbiology, Gent University, Gent, Belgium

Wietse de Boer

w.deboer@nioo.knaw.nl

Affiliations Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, the Netherlands, Department of Soil Quality, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M-BB WdB. Performed the experiments: M-BB. Analyzed the data: M-BB PV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WdB. Wrote the paper: M-BB WdB PV.