About the Authors

Nico Nouwen

nico.nouwen@ird.fr

Affiliation IRD, Laboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes, UMR IRD/ SupAgro/INRA/ UM2 /CIRAD, Montpellier, France

Joel Fardoux

Affiliation IRD, Laboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes, UMR IRD/ SupAgro/INRA/ UM2 /CIRAD, Montpellier, France

Eric Giraud

Affiliation IRD, Laboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes, UMR IRD/ SupAgro/INRA/ UM2 /CIRAD, Montpellier, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NN. Performed the experiments: NN JF. Analyzed the data: NN EG. Wrote the paper: NN EG.