About the Authors

Christoph Hemetsberger

Contributed equally to this work with: Christoph Hemetsberger, Christian Herrberger

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Christian Herrberger

Contributed equally to this work with: Christoph Hemetsberger, Christian Herrberger

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Bernd Zechmann

Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Morten Hillmer

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Gunther Doehlemann

doehlemann@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: C. Hemetsberger C. Herrberger G. Doehlemann. Performed the experiments: C. Hemetsberger C. Herrberger B. Zechmann M. Hillmer. Analyzed the data: C. Hemetsberger C. Herrberger B. Zechmann G. Doehlemann. Wrote the paper: C. Hemetsberger C. Herrberger G. Doehlemann.