About the Authors

Michael Aregger

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Aregger, Basanta K. Borah, Jonathan Seguin

Current address: College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom

Affiliation Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Basanta K. Borah

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Aregger, Basanta K. Borah, Jonathan Seguin

Affiliation Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Jonathan Seguin

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Aregger, Basanta K. Borah, Jonathan Seguin

Affiliations Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Fasteris SA, Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland

Rajendran Rajeswaran

Affiliation Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Ekaterina G. Gubaeva

Affiliation Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Anna S. Zvereva

Affiliation Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

David Windels

Affiliation Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Franck Vazquez

Affiliation Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Todd Blevins

Affiliation Biology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Laurent Farinelli

Affiliation Fasteris SA, Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland

Mikhail M. Pooggin

Mikhail.Pooggin@unibas.ch

Affiliation Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MMP TB LF. Performed the experiments: MA BKB JS EGG ASZ RR TB. Analyzed the data: JS LF MA MMP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DW FV. Wrote the paper: MMP.