About the Authors

Marco Galardini

¤ Current address: EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Matteo Brilli

Affiliation Department of Genomics and Biology of Fruit Crops, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM), San Michele all’Adige, Italy

Giulia Spini

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Agrarie, Sezione di Microbiologia, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Matteo Rossi

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Bianca Roncaglia

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Alessia Bani

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Manuela Chiancianesi

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Marco Moretto

Affiliation Department of Computational Biology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM), San Michele all’Adige, Italy

Kristof Engelen

Affiliation Department of Computational Biology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM), San Michele all’Adige, Italy

Giovanni Bacci

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy, Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura, Centro di Ricerca per lo Studio delle Relazioni tra Pianta e Suolo (CRA-RPS), Rome, Italy

Francesco Pini

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Research Institute USR3078, CNRS-Universit Lille Nord de France, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

Emanuele G. Biondi

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Research Institute USR3078, CNRS-Universit Lille Nord de France, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

Marco Bazzicalupo

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Alessio Mengoni

alessio.mengoni@unifi.it

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG MBr EGB MBa AM. Performed the experiments: MG MBr MM KE GS MR BR AB MC AM. Analyzed the data: MG MBr KE MM GB FP MBa AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG MBr MM KE. Wrote the paper: MG FP MBr AM.