About the Authors

Shahid Siddique

Current address: INRES, Department of Molecular Phytomedicine, University Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Affiliation Division of Plant Protection, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Miroslaw Sobczak

Affiliation Department of Botany, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Warsaw, Poland

Raimund Tenhaken

Affiliation Division of Plant Physiology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

Florian M. W. Grundler

Current address: INRES, Department of Molecular Phytomedicine, University Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Affiliation Division of Plant Protection, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Holger Bohlmann

holger.bohlmann@boku.ac.at

Affiliation Division of Plant Protection, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HB SS. Performed the experiments: SS MS RT. Analyzed the data: HB SS MS RT FMWG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HB MS RT. Wrote the paper: HB FMWG.