About the Authors

Stanton Hector

Contributed equally to this work with: Stanton Hector, Kyle Willard

Affiliation Institute for Plant Biotechnology, Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602, South Africa

Kyle Willard

Contributed equally to this work with: Stanton Hector, Kyle Willard

Affiliation Institute for Plant Biotechnology, Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602, South Africa

Rolene Bauer

Affiliation LaunchLab, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602, South Africa

Inonge Mulako

Affiliation Institute for Plant Biotechnology, Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602, South Africa

Etienne Slabbert

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602, South Africa, Central Analytical Facility, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602, South Africa

Jens Kossmann

Affiliation Institute for Plant Biotechnology, Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602, South Africa

Gavin M George

ggeorge@ethz.ch

Current address: Institute for Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Universitätsstrasse 2, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland

Affiliation Institute for Plant Biotechnology, Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GG. Performed the experiments: SH KW IM ES GG. Analyzed the data: SH KW RB ES GG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JK. Wrote the paper: SH KW RB IM GG.