About the Authors

Dominik Ziegler

Contributed equally to this work with: Dominik Ziegler, Anna Mariotti

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, Mabritec AG, Riehen, Switzerland

Anna Mariotti

Contributed equally to this work with: Dominik Ziegler, Anna Mariotti

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, Institute of Microbiology, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Valentin Pflüger

Affiliation Mabritec AG, Riehen, Switzerland

Maged Saad

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Guido Vogel

Affiliation Mabritec AG, Riehen, Switzerland

Mauro Tonolla

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, Institute of Microbiology, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Xavier Perret

xavier.perret@unige.ch

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

Co-authors Valentin Pflüger and Guido Vogel are employees of Marbitrec AG. Dominik Ziegler is a PhD student in Geneva whose research is partially funded by Mabritec AG. There are no patents or products in development to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all of the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XP MT AM DZ. Performed the experiments: AM DZ MS. Analyzed the data: AM DZ VP GV XP MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XP MT GV. Wrote the paper: XP DZ AM MT.