About the Authors

Marco Pitino

Contributed equally to this work with: Marco Pitino, Alexander D. Coleman

Affiliations Department of Disease and Stress Biology, The John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom, Plant Physiology Unit, Department of Plant Biology, Innovation Centre, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Alexander D. Coleman

Contributed equally to this work with: Marco Pitino, Alexander D. Coleman

Affiliation Department of Disease and Stress Biology, The John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

Massimo E. Maffei

Affiliation Plant Physiology Unit, Department of Plant Biology, Innovation Centre, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Christopher J. Ridout

Affiliation Department of Disease and Stress Biology, The John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

Saskia A. Hogenhout

saskia.hogenhout@jic.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Disease and Stress Biology, The 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: MP AC SH. Performed the experiments: MP AC. Analyzed the data: MP AC SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH CR MM. Wrote the paper: MP AC MM CR SH.