About the Authors

Mirwaes Wahabzada

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation INRES-Phytomedicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Anne-Katrin Mahlein

amahlein@uni-bonn.de

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation INRES-Phytomedicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Christian Bauckhage

Affiliations Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin, Germany, B-IT, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Ulrike Steiner

Affiliation INRES-Phytomedicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Erich-Christian Oerke

Affiliation INRES-Phytomedicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Kristian Kersting

Affiliations Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin, Germany, CS Department, Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: Christian Bauckhage and Kristian Kersting are employed by Fraunhofer IAIS, a non-for-profit research institute of the Fraunhofer-Society in Germany. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MW AKM CB US ECO KK. Performed the experiments: MW AKM. Analyzed the data: MW AKM KK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW AKM CB US ECO KK. Wrote the paper: MW AKM KK.