About the Authors

Flavia Dematheis

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

Benedikt Kurtz

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

Stefan Vidal

svidal@gwdg.de

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

Kornelia Smalla

Affiliation Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, Julius Kühn-Institut - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (JKI), 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 BK. Analyzed the data: FD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FD. Wrote the paper: FD KS SV.