A fungal RNA-dependent RNA polymerase is a novel player in plant infection and cross-kingdom RNA interference

• An-Po Cheng,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Martinsried, Germany

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• Bernhard Lederer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bernhard Lederer, Lorenz Oberkofler

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Martinsried, Germany

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• Lorenz Oberkofler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bernhard Lederer, Lorenz Oberkofler

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Martinsried, Germany

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• Lihong Huang,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: GMU-GIBH Joint School of Life Sciences, The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Joint Laboratory for Cell Fate Regulation and Diseases, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

  Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Martinsried, Germany

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• Nathan R. Johnson,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centro de Genómica y Bioinformática, Facultad de Ciencias, Ingeniería y Tecnología, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile, ANID-Millennium Science Initiative Program-Millennium Institute for Integrative Biology (iBio), Santiago, Chile

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• Fabian Platten,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Martinsried, Germany

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• Florian Dunker,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Martinsried, Germany

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• Constance Tisserant,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Martinsried, Germany

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• Arne Weiberg

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: a.weiberg@lmu.de

  Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Martinsried, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4300-4864

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