About the Authors

Matthias Kretschmer

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias Kretschmer, Michaela Leroch

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Michaela Leroch

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias Kretschmer, Michaela Leroch

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Andreas Mosbach

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Anne-Sophie Walker

Affiliation UMR1290 BIOGER-CPP, INRA-AgroParisTech, Thiverval-Grignon, France

Sabine Fillinger

Affiliation UMR1290 BIOGER-CPP, INRA-AgroParisTech, Thiverval-Grignon, France

Dennis Mernke

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Henk-Jan Schoonbeek

Current address: Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Center, Norwich, United Kingdom

Affiliation Institute of Plant Science, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

Jean-Marc Pradier

Affiliation UMR1290 BIOGER-CPP, INRA-AgroParisTech, Thiverval-Grignon, France

Pierre Leroux

Affiliation UMR1290 BIOGER-CPP, INRA-AgroParisTech, Thiverval-Grignon, France

Maarten A. De Waard

Affiliation Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Matthias Hahn

hahn@rhrk.uni-kl.de

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH. Performed the experiments: MK ML AM ASW SF DM HJS JMP PL MADW. Analyzed the data: MK ML MH. Wrote the paper: MH.