About the Authors

Ján Jásik

jan.jasik@yahoo.com

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Köln, Germany, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, The Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, Bratislava, Slovakia

Barbara Boggetti

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Köln, Germany

František Baluška

Affiliation Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Dieter Volkmann

Affiliation Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Thomas Gensch

Affiliation Institute of Complex Systems 4 (ICS-4, Cellular Biophysics), Researche Centre Juelich, Juelich, Germany

Twan Rutten

Affiliation The Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany

Thomas Altmann

Affiliation The Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany

Elmon Schmelzer

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Köln, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Revised and corrected the manuscript: ES BB TR TG FB. Conceived and designed the experiments: JJ. Performed the experiments: JJ BB ES TG TR. Analyzed the data: JJ ES. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ES TA TG TR DV FB. Wrote the paper: JJ.