About the Authors

Khalid Amari

amari.khalid@ibmp-cnrs.unistra.fr (KA); manfred.heinlein@ibmp-cnrs.unistra.fr (MH)

Current address: Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Affiliation Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, Botany, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Martin Di Donato

Current address: Department of Biology-Plant Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

Affiliation Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, Botany, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Valerian V. Dolja

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

Manfred Heinlein

amari.khalid@ibmp-cnrs.unistra.fr (KA); manfred.heinlein@ibmp-cnrs.unistra.fr (MH)

Affiliations Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, Botany, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 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 MH. Performed the experiments: KA MDD. Analyzed the data: KA MDD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KA MDD VVD MH. Wrote the paper: KA VVD MH.