About the Authors

Nikolay Vasilev

nikolay.vasilev@ime.fraunhofer.de

Affiliation Department Plant Biotechnology, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Aachen, Germany

Christian Schmitz

Affiliation Department Plant Biotechnology, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Aachen, Germany

Ulrike Grömping

Affiliation Department II–Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany

Rainer Fischer

Affiliations Department Plant Biotechnology, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Aachen, Germany, Institute for Molecular Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Stefan Schillberg

Affiliations Department Plant Biotechnology, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Aachen, Germany, Institute for Phytopathology and Applied Zoology, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NV UG RF StS. Performed the experiments: NV CS. Analyzed the data: NV CS UG. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: NV UG RF StS.