About the Authors

Khalid Amari

Current address: Botanical Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Affiliation Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Alexander Lerich

Current address: Department of Plant Cell Biology, Centre for Organismal Studies, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

Affiliation Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Corinne Schmitt-Keichinger

Affiliation Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Valerian V. Dolja

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Christophe Ritzenthaler

ritzenth@unistra.fr

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KA AL CSK VVD CR. Performed the experiments: KA AL CSK VVD CR. Analyzed the data: KA AL CSK VVD CR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KA AL CSK VVD CR. Wrote the paper: KA AL VVD CR.