About the Authors

Armando Carpaneto

Affiliation Istituto di Biofisica-CNR, Genova, Italy

Hermann Koepsell

Affiliation Institut für Anatomie und Zellbiologie, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Ernst Bamberg

Affiliation Max-Plank-Institute for Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Rainer Hedrich

Affiliation Julius-von-Sachs-Institut, Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie und Biophysik, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Dietmar Geiger

geiger@botanik.uni-wuerzburg.de

Affiliation Julius-von-Sachs-Institut, Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie und Biophysik, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC HK EB RH DG. Performed the experiments: AC DG. Analyzed the data: AC DG. Wrote the paper: AC HK EB RH DG.