About the Authors

Giulia Malacarne

Contributed equally to this work with: Giulia Malacarne, Michele Perazzolli

Affiliation IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, S. Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Michele Perazzolli

Contributed equally to this work with: Giulia Malacarne, Michele Perazzolli

michele.perazzolli@iasma.it

Affiliation IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, S. Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Alessandro Cestaro

Affiliation IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, S. Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Lieven Sterck

Affiliations Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Gent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Paolo Fontana

Affiliation IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, S. Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Yves Van de Peer

Affiliations Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Gent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Roberto Viola

Affiliation IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, S. Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Riccardo Velasco

Affiliation IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, S. Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Francesco Salamini

Affiliation IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, S. Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GM MP FS. Performed the experiments: AC PF LS YVdP GM MP. Analyzed the data: GM MP YVdP FS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: R. Velasco R. Viola. Wrote the paper: GM MP R. Velasco R. Viola FS.