About the Authors

Lena Hauberg-Lotte

Affiliation University Bremen, Molecular Plant Microbiology, Center for Biomolecular Interactions Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Hannah Klingenberg

Affiliation University Bremen, Molecular Plant Microbiology, Center for Biomolecular Interactions Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Christian Scharf

Affiliations Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Interfaculty Institute of Genetics and Functional Genomics, Greifswald, Germany, University of Medicine Greifswald, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Greifswald, Germany

Melanie Böhm

Affiliation University Bremen, Molecular Plant Microbiology, Center for Biomolecular Interactions Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Jörg Plessl

Affiliation University Bremen, Molecular Plant Microbiology, Center for Biomolecular Interactions Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Frauke Friedrich

Affiliation University Bremen, Molecular Plant Microbiology, Center for Biomolecular Interactions Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Uwe Völker

Affiliation Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Interfaculty Institute of Genetics and Functional Genomics, Greifswald, Germany

Anke Becker

Affiliation Institute of Biology III, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Barbara Reinhold-Hurek

breinhold@uni-bremen.de

Affiliation University Bremen, Molecular Plant Microbiology, Center for Biomolecular Interactions Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BR-H LH-L MB. Performed the experiments: LH-L MB HK CS UV FF JP. Analyzed the data: LH-L MB HK CS UV BR-H. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB. Wrote the paper: BR-H LH-L MB.