About the Authors

Hussein Alkhedir

Affiliation Department of Crop Sciences, Agricultural Entomology, Georg-August University, Goettingen, Germany

Petr Karlovsky

Affiliation Department of Crop Sciences, Molecular Phytopathology and Mycotoxin Research, Georg-August University Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

Stefan Vidal

svidal@gwdg.de

Affiliation Department of Crop Sciences, Agricultural Entomology, Georg-August University, Goettingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HA PK SV. Performed the experiments: HA. Analyzed the data: HA PK SV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PK SV. Wrote the paper: HA PK SV.