About the Authors

Philipp Wiemann

Contributed equally to this work with: Philipp Wiemann, Christian M. K. Sieber, Katharina W. von Bargen

Current address: Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America.

Affiliation Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Fungi, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

Christian M. K. Sieber

Contributed equally to this work with: Philipp Wiemann, Christian M. K. Sieber, Katharina W. von Bargen

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany

Katharina W. von Bargen

Contributed equally to this work with: Philipp Wiemann, Christian M. K. Sieber, Katharina W. von Bargen

Affiliation Institute for Food Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 45, Münster, Germany

Lena Studt

Affiliations Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Fungi, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany, Institute for Food Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 45, Münster, Germany

Eva-Maria Niehaus

Affiliation Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Fungi, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

Jose J. Espino

Affiliation Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Fungi, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

Kathleen Huß

Affiliation Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Fungi, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

Caroline B. Michielse

Affiliation Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Fungi, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

Sabine Albermann

Affiliation Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Fungi, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

Dominik Wagner

Affiliation Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Fungi, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

Sonja V. Bergner

Affiliation Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

Lanelle R. Connolly

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Andreas Fischer

Affiliation Institut of Genetics/Developmental Genetics, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Gunter Reuter

Affiliation Institut of Genetics/Developmental Genetics, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Karin Kleigrewe

Affiliation Institute for Food Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 45, Münster, Germany

Till Bald

Affiliation Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

Brenda D. Wingfield

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa

Ron Ophir

Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, Genomics, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), The Volcani Center, Bet-Dagan, Israel

Stanley Freeman

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), The Volcani Center, Bet-Dagan, Israel

Michael Hippler

Affiliation Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

Kristina M. Smith

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Daren W. Brown

Affiliation National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, United States Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Illinois, United States of America

Robert H. Proctor

Affiliation National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, United States Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Illinois, United States of America

Martin Münsterkötter

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany

Michael Freitag

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Hans-Ulrich Humpf

humpf@uni-muenster.de (HGH); u.gueldener@helmholtz-muenchen.de (UG); tudzynsb@uni-muenster.de (BT)

Affiliation Institute for Food Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 45, Münster, Germany

Ulrich Güldener

humpf@uni-muenster.de (HGH); u.gueldener@helmholtz-muenchen.de (UG); tudzynsb@uni-muenster.de (BT)

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany

Bettina Tudzynski

humpf@uni-muenster.de (HGH); u.gueldener@helmholtz-muenchen.de (UG); tudzynsb@uni-muenster.de (BT)

Affiliation Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Fungi, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BT UG PW HUH MF MH GR. Performed the experiments: KWvB PW LS EMN KH SA DW JJE SVB LRC AF KK. Analyzed the data: KWvB PW LS JJE AF EMN UG CMKS MM CBM TB KMS RO DWB RHP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BDW SF BT HUH MF. Wrote the paper: BT PW UG DWB RHP MF MH.