About the Authors

Debora Gasperini

Affiliation Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Aurore Chételat

Affiliation Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Ivan F. Acosta

Current address: Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

Affiliation Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Jonas Goossens

Affiliations Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Laurens Pauwels

Affiliations Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Alain Goossens

Affiliations Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

René Dreos

Affiliation Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Esteban Alfonso

Affiliation Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Edward E. Farmer

edward.farmer@unil.ch

Affiliation Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DG EEF. Performed the experiments: DG AC IFA JG EA EEF. Analyzed the data: DG JG RD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LP AG. Wrote the paper: DG EEF.