About the Authors

Evelien Gerits

Affiliation Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Eline Blommaert

Affiliation Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Anna Lippell

Affiliation School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Alex J. O’Neill

Affiliation School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Bram Weytjens

Affiliation Department of Information Technology (INTEC, iMINDS), U.Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Dries De Maeyer

Affiliation Department of Information Technology (INTEC, iMINDS), U.Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Ana Carolina Fierro

Affiliations Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Information Technology (INTEC, iMINDS), U.Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Kathleen Marchal

Affiliations Department of Information Technology (INTEC, iMINDS), U.Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, U.Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Arnaud Marchand

Affiliation CISTIM Leuven vzw, Bio-Incubator, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Patrick Chaltin

Affiliations CISTIM Leuven vzw, Bio-Incubator, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Centre for Drug Design and Discovery (CD3), Research and Development, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Pieter Spincemaille

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Katrijn De Brucker

Affiliation Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Karin Thevissen

Affiliation Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Bruno P. A. Cammue

Affiliations Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium

Toon Swings

Affiliation Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Veerle Liebens

Affiliation Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Maarten Fauvart

Affiliations Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, imec, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies Unit, Department of Life Science Technologies, Leuven, Belgium

Natalie Verstraeten

Affiliation Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Jan Michiels

Jan.Michiels@biw.kuleuven.be

Affiliation Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Competing Interests

MF is a researcher at imec. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EG AL AJO KDB KT BPAC VL MF NV JM. Performed the experiments: EG EB AL PS. Analyzed the data: EG EB AL BW DDM ACF TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM PC. Wrote the paper: EG NV JM. Revision of the manuscript: AJO KM KDB KT BPAC VL MF NV JM.