About the Authors

Assunta Pelosi

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

David Piedrafita

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Giorgio De Guzman

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Robert Shepherd

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

John D. Hamill

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Els Meeusen

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Amanda M. Walmsley

amanda.walmsley@monash.edu

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The commercial partner Dow AgroSciences provided funds alone through the ARC Linkage Grant mechanism and therefore has no competing interest, provided no direct employment (other than personnel hired by Monash University to undertake the study using grant funds), provided no consultancy, filed no patent applications nor patents, has no related products in development or marketed related products and does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AP DP RS EM AW. Performed the experiments: AP GDG RS. Analyzed the data: AP DP RS EM AW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP GDG RS EM AW. Wrote the paper: AP.