About the Authors

Eva Nouri

Affiliation Dept. of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

Florence Breuillin-Sessoms

Current address: Plant Pathology Dept., University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Affiliation Dept. of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

Urs Feller

Affiliation Institute of Plant Science, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Didier Reinhardt

didier.reinhardt@unifr.ch

Affiliation Dept. of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DR EN FBS UF. Performed the experiments: DR EN FBS UF. Analyzed the data: DR EN FBS UF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DR UF. Wrote the paper: DR EN FBS UF.