About the Authors

Marialice da Fonseca Ferreira-da-Silva

Contributed equally to this work with: Marialice da Fonseca Ferreira-da-Silva, Helen Maria Springer-Frauenhoff

Affiliation Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Helen Maria Springer-Frauenhoff

Contributed equally to this work with: Marialice da Fonseca Ferreira-da-Silva, Helen Maria Springer-Frauenhoff

Affiliation Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Wolfgang Bohne

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Jonathan C. Howard

j.howard@uni-koeln.de

Affiliations Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HMSF WB JCH. Performed the experiments: HMSF MdFFdS. Analyzed the data: HMSF JCH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WB JCH. Wrote the paper: HMSF JCH.