About the Authors

Tjaša Lukan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tjasa.lukan@nib.si

Affiliations National Institute of Biology, Department of Biotechnology and Systems Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia, International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Fabian Machens

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Current address: University of Potsdam, Department Molecular Biology, Potsdam, Germany

Affiliation University of Potsdam, Cell2Fab Research Unit, Potsdam, Germany

Anna Coll

Roles Conceptualization, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute of Biology, Department of Biotechnology and Systems Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Špela Baebler

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute of Biology, Department of Biotechnology and Systems Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Katrin Messerschmidt

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Potsdam, Cell2Fab Research Unit, Potsdam, Germany

Kristina Gruden

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute of Biology, Department of Biotechnology and Systems Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Competing Interests

Patent is pending for AssemblX cloning method and vectors (Patent number EP16188155.2, inventors: Katrin Messerschmidt, Fabian Machens, Lena Hochrein, Bernd Mueller-Roeber), which are used as a part of Plant X-tender. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.