About the Authors

David M. Richards

Contributed equally to this work with: David M. Richards, Antje M. Hempel

Affiliation John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

Antje M. Hempel

Contributed equally to this work with: David M. Richards, Antje M. Hempel

Affiliations John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom, Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Klas Flärdh

klas.flardh@biol.lu.se (KF); martin.howard@jic.ac.uk (MH)

Affiliation Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Mark J. Buttner

Affiliation John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

Martin Howard

klas.flardh@biol.lu.se (KF); martin.howard@jic.ac.uk (MH)

Affiliation John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DMR AMH KF MJB MH. Performed the experiments: DMR AMH. Analyzed the data: DMR AMH. Wrote the paper: DMR AMH KF MJB MH.