About the Authors

Guo-Chun Ding

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

Viviane Radl

Affiliation Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Research Unit for Environmental Genomics, Neuherberg, Germany

Brigitte Schloter-Hai

Affiliation Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Research Unit for Environmental Genomics, Neuherberg, Germany

Sven Jechalke

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

Holger Heuer

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

Michael Schloter

Affiliation Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Research Unit for Environmental Genomics, Neuherberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH KS MS. Performed the experiments: VR BSH. Analyzed the data: GCD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GCD VR KS MS. Wrote the paper: GCD BSH HH KS MS SJ.