About the Authors

Henrik Failmezger

Contributed equally to this work with: Henrik Failmezger, Benjamin Jaegle

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Benjamin Jaegle

Contributed equally to this work with: Henrik Failmezger, Benjamin Jaegle

Affiliation Botanical Institute III, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Andrea Schrader

Affiliation Botanical Institute III, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Martin Hülskamp

martin.huelskamp@uni-koeln.de (MH); tresch@mpipz.mpg.de (AT)

Affiliation Botanical Institute III, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Achim Tresch

martin.huelskamp@uni-koeln.de (MH); tresch@mpipz.mpg.de (AT)

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH AT. Performed the experiments: BJ AS. Analyzed the data: HF AT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HF. Wrote the paper: HF BJ AS MH AT. Initiated the research: MH. Did the bioinformatics analysis: HF. Developed TrichEratops: HF. Designed the project and supervised the work: AS MH AT. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.