About the Authors

Aline Koch

Affiliation Institute for Phytopathology, Centre for BioSystems, Land Use and Nutrition, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Dagmar Biedenkopf

Affiliation Institute for Phytopathology, Centre for BioSystems, Land Use and Nutrition, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Alexandra Furch

Affiliation Institute of General Botany and Plant Physiology, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany

Lennart Weber

Affiliation Institute for Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Centre for BioSystems, Land Use and Nutrition, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Oliver Rossbach

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Centre for BioSystems, Land Use and Nutrition, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Eltayb Abdellatef

Affiliation Institute for Phytopathology, Centre for BioSystems, Land Use and Nutrition, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Lukas Linicus

Affiliation Institute for Phytopathology, Centre for BioSystems, Land Use and Nutrition, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Jan Johannsmeier

Affiliation Institute for Phytopathology, Centre for BioSystems, Land Use and Nutrition, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Lukas Jelonek

Affiliation Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Centre for BioSystems, Land Use and Nutrition, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Alexander Goesmann

Affiliation Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Centre for BioSystems, Land Use and Nutrition, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Vinitha Cardoza

Affiliation BASF Plant Science LP, Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

John McMillan

Affiliation BASF Plant Science LP, Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Tobias Mentzel

Affiliation BASF SE, Limburgerhof, Germany

Karl-Heinz Kogel

karl-heinz.kogel@agrar.uni-giessen.de

Affiliation Institute for Phytopathology, Centre for BioSystems, Land Use and Nutrition, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the fact that the authors VC, JM, and TM are employed by a commercial company BASF Resesarch Triangle Park and BASF Limburgerhof does not alter our adherence to all PLOS Pathogens policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AK KHK. Data curation: LJ AG VC JM TM. Formal analysis: AK AF LJ VC JM TM. Funding acquisition: KHK TM. Investigation: AK AF DB LW OR LL JJ EA. Methodology: AK KHK. Project administration: AK KHK. Resources: KHK AG VC JM TM. Software: LJ AG VC JM TM. Supervision: AK KHK. Validation: AK AF KHK. Visualization: AK AF. Writing – original draft: AK KHK. Writing – review & editing: KHK AK.