About the Authors

Antonis A. Augustinos

Affiliations Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Ioannina, Agrinio, Greece, Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Western Greece, Agrinio, Greece

Diego Santos-Garcia

Affiliation Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain

Eva Dionyssopoulou

Affiliations Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Ioannina, Agrinio, Greece, Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Western Greece, Agrinio, Greece

Marta Moreira

Affiliation ISOPlexis Gene Bank, Universidade da Madeira, Funchal, Portugal

Aristeidis Papapanagiotou

Affiliation Department of Greenhouse Crops and Floriculture, Technological Educational Institute of Messolonghi, Messolonghi, Greece

Marios Scarvelakis

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Ioannina, Agrinio, Greece

Vangelis Doudoumis

Affiliations Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Ioannina, Agrinio, Greece, Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Western Greece, Agrinio, Greece

Silvia Ramos

Affiliation Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain

Antonio F. Aguiar

Affiliation Laboratório de Qualidade Agrícola, Núcleo de Fitopatologia,, Madeira, Portugal

Paulo A. V. Borges

Affiliation Departamento de Ciências Agrárias CITA-A (Azorean Biodiversity Group), Universidade dos Açores, Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira – Azores

Manhaz Khadem

Affiliation ISOPlexis Gene Bank, Universidade da Madeira, Funchal, Portugal

Amparo Latorre

Affiliations Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain, Área de Genómica y Salud, Centro Superior de Investigación en Salud Pública (CSISP), Valencia, Spain

George Tsiamis

Affiliations Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Ioannina, Agrinio, Greece, Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Western Greece, Agrinio, Greece

Kostas Bourtzis

kbourtz@uoi.gr

Affiliations Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Ioannina, Agrinio, Greece, Biomedical Sciences Research Center Al. Fleming, Vari, Greece, Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Western Greece, Agrinio, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KB AL MK GT. Performed the experiments: AAA DSG ED MM AP MS VD SR AFA GT. Analyzed the data: AAA DSG MM AL MK GT KB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KB AL MK AP AFA PAVB GT. Wrote the paper: KB AAA AL MK GT.