About the Authors

Christoph Mathieu

Contributed equally to this work with: Christoph Mathieu, Juan P. Macêdo

Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Juan P. Macêdo

Contributed equally to this work with: Christoph Mathieu, Juan P. Macêdo

Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Daniel Hürlimann

Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Corina Wirdnam

Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Alexander C. Haindrich

Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Marianne Suter Grotemeyer

Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Amaia González-Salgado

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Remo S. Schmidt

Affiliation Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Ehud Inbar

Affiliation Faculty of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Pascal Mäser

Affiliation Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Peter Bütikofer

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Dan Zilberstein

Affiliation Faculty of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Doris Rentsch

doris.rentsch@ips.unibe.ch

Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DR. Formal analysis: CM JPM DH MSG RSS. Funding acquisition: PM PB DR. Investigation: CM JPM DH CW ACH MSG AGS EI. Project administration: DR. Resources: EI DZ. Supervision: PM PB DZ DR. Visualization: CM JPM CW ACH MSG RSS DR. Writing – original draft: CM JPM DR. Writing – review & editing: CM JPM AGS RSS PM PB DZ DR.