About the Authors

Arne Hauenschild

Contributed equally to this work with: Arne Hauenschild, Leonie Ringrose

Affiliation Universität Bielefeld, Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld, Germany

Leonie Ringrose

Contributed equally to this work with: Arne Hauenschild, Leonie Ringrose

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: marc.rehmsmeier@gmi.oeaw.ac.at (MR); ringrose@imp.univie.ac.at (LR)

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), Vienna, Austria , Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), Heidelberg, Germany

Christina Altmutter

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), Vienna, Austria

Renato Paro

Affiliations Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), Heidelberg, Germany , Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland

Marc Rehmsmeier

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: marc.rehmsmeier@gmi.oeaw.ac.at (MR); ringrose@imp.univie.ac.at (LR)

Affiliations Universität Bielefeld, Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld, Germany , Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI), Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

AH, LR, and MR conceived and designed the experiments. AH performed bioinformatic analysis. CA cloned transgenic constructs. LR performed all other wet-lab experiments. AH, LR, and MR analyzed the data. MR supervised AH. LR supervised CA. RP supervised LR until December 2005. LR and MR wrote the manuscript.