About the Authors

Henrik Nausch

Affiliation Department of Agrobiotechnology, Agricultural and Environmental Faculty, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Heike Mikschofsky

Affiliation Department of Agrobiotechnology, Agricultural and Environmental Faculty, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Roswitha Koslowski

Affiliation Bioserv GmbH, Rostock, Germany

Udo Meyer

Affiliation Bioserv GmbH, Rostock, Germany

Inge Broer

inge.broer@uni-rostock.de

Affiliation Department of Agrobiotechnology, Agricultural and Environmental Faculty, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Jana Huckauf

Affiliation Department of Agrobiotechnology, Agricultural and Environmental Faculty, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Competing Interests

The experiments for this publication were done in cooperation with the commercial company BIOSERV GmbH. The company provided the equipment for the Bioassay in order to test the biological activity of plant-made IL6. That is why the employees of BIOSERV which were involved in the Bioassay experiments were listed as co-authors. There are no competing interests between the University of Rostock and BIOSERV, since this study was done as cooperation project. All authors are informed about and agreed with the submitted manuscript. None of the authors from the University of Rostock have been employed by BIOSERV at any time. Furthermore, there are no patents, products in development or marketed products etc., which compete with the manuscript. Hence, this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HN HM UM IB JH. Performed the experiments: HN. Analyzed the data: HN HM JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UM IB. Wrote the paper: HN. Performed bioassay: RK.