About the Authors

Luca Bianco

Affiliation Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Trento, Italy

Alessandro Cestaro

Affiliation Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Trento, Italy

Daniel James Sargent

Affiliation Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Trento, Italy

Elisa Banchi

Affiliation Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Trento, Italy

Sophia Derdak

Affiliation CNAG – Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico, Parc Científic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Mario Di Guardo

Affiliations Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Trento, Italy, Wageningen UR Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Silvio Salvi

Affiliation DipSA - University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Johannes Jansen

Affiliation Biometris, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Roberto Viola

Affiliation Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Trento, Italy

Ivo Gut

Affiliation CNAG – Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico, Parc Científic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Francois Laurens

Affiliation INRA, UMR1345 Institut de Recherche en Horticulture and Semences, Beaucouzé, France

David Chagné

Affiliation Plant & Food Research, Palmerston North Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Riccardo Velasco

Affiliation Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Trento, Italy

Eric van de Weg

Affiliation Wageningen UR Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Michela Troggio

michela.troggio@fmach.it

Affiliation Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Trento, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: R. Velasco SS MT LB EVDW FL. Performed the experiments: SD IG EB. Analyzed the data: AC LB MT EVDW MDG DJS JJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IG SD. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MT LB DJS EVDW DC R. Viola.