About the Authors

Flavia Dematheis

Affiliation Julius Kühn-Institut - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (JKI), Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, Braunschweig, Germany

Ute Zimmerling

Affiliation Julius Kühn-Institut - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (JKI), Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, Braunschweig, Germany

Cecilia Flocco

Affiliation Julius Kühn-Institut - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (JKI), Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, Braunschweig, Germany

Benedikt Kurtz

Affiliation Department of Crop Science, Agricultural Entomology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Stefan Vidal

Affiliation Department of Crop Science, Agricultural Entomology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Siegfried Kropf

Affiliation Department of Biometry and Medical Informatics, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Kornelia Smalla

kornelia.smalla@jki.bund.de

Affiliation Julius Kühn-Institut - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (JKI), Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, Braunschweig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FD KS SV. Performed the experiments: FD UZ BK CF. Analyzed the data: FD SK. Wrote the paper: FD KS SV.