About the Authors

Or Sperling

orsperling@gmail.com (OS); jmearles@ucdavis.edu (JME)

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, PES #2316, One Shields Avenue, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, United States of America

J. Mason Earles

orsperling@gmail.com (OS); jmearles@ucdavis.edu (JME)

Affiliations Department of Plant Sciences, PES #2316, One Shields Avenue, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, United States of America, Ecology Graduate Group, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, United States of America

Francesca Secchi

Affiliation Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (DISAFA), University of Torino, Via 15 Leonardo da Vinci 44, 10095 Grugliasco, TO, Italy

Jessie Godfrey

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, PES #2316, One Shields Avenue, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, United States of America

Maciej A. Zwieniecki

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, PES #2316, One Shields Avenue, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OS JME MAZ. Performed the experiments: OS JME JG FS. Analyzed the data: OS JME MAZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OS FS MAZ. Wrote the paper: OS JME JG FS MAZ.