About the Authors

Linzhu Wang

Current address: Botanik I, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Affiliation Biochemical Ecology and Molecular Evolution, Botanical Institute and Botanical Garden, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany

Till Beuerle

Affiliation Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology, Technical University Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

James Timbilla

Affiliation Queensborough Community College, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Dietrich Ober

dober@bot.uni-kiel.de

Affiliation Biochemical Ecology and Molecular Evolution, Botanical Institute and Botanical Garden, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LW DO JT. Performed the experiments: LW TB. Analyzed the data: LW TB DO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JT TB. Wrote the paper: DO. LC-MS experiments: TB.