About the Authors

Birgit Kersten

Contributed equally to this work with: Birgit Kersten, Patricia Faivre Rampant

birgit.kersten@ti.bund.de

Affiliation Genome Research, Thünen Institute of Forest Genetics, Grosshansdorf, Germany

Patricia Faivre Rampant

Contributed equally to this work with: Birgit Kersten, Patricia Faivre Rampant

Affiliation URGV-Plant Genomics Research, INRA, Evry, France

Malte Mader

Affiliation Ecological Genetics, Thünen Institute of Forest Genetics, Grosshansdorf, Germany

Marie-Christine Le Paslier

Affiliation URGV-Plant Genomics Research, INRA, Evry, France

Rémi Bounon

Affiliation URGV-Plant Genomics Research, INRA, Evry, France

Aurélie Berard

Affiliation URGV-Plant Genomics Research, INRA, Evry, France

Cristina Vettori

Affiliation Institute of Bioscience and Bioresources (IBBR), National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

Hilke Schroeder

Affiliations Genome Research, Thünen Institute of Forest Genetics, Grosshansdorf, Germany, Ecological Genetics, Thünen Institute of Forest Genetics, Grosshansdorf, Germany

Jean-Charles Leplé

Affiliation Research Unit AGPF, INRA, Orléans, France

Matthias Fladung

Affiliation Genome Research, Thünen Institute of Forest Genetics, Grosshansdorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MF BK JCL PFR HS. Performed the experiments: MCLP RB AB CV HS. Analyzed the data: BK MM HS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PFR MF. Wrote the paper: BK PFR MF MM HS.