About the Authors

Elena Zuriaga

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Zuriaga, Juan V. Muñoz-Sanz

Affiliation Fruit Tree Breeding Department, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias, Moncada, Valencia, Spain

Juan V. Muñoz-Sanz

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Zuriaga, Juan V. Muñoz-Sanz

Affiliation Fruit Tree Breeding Department, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias, Moncada, Valencia, Spain

Laura Molina

Affiliation Fruit Tree Breeding Department, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias, Moncada, Valencia, Spain

Ana D. Gisbert

Affiliation Fruit Tree Breeding Department, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias, Moncada, Valencia, Spain

María L. Badenes

Affiliation Fruit Tree Breeding Department, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias, Moncada, Valencia, Spain

Carlos Romero

romero_carsal@gva.es

Affiliation Fruit Tree Breeding Department, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias, Moncada, Valencia, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Contributed equally to the experimental part of the work: EZ JVMS. Conceived and designed the experiments: CR EZ JVMS. Performed the experiments: CR EZ JVMS LM ADG. Analyzed the data: CR EZ JVMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CR MLB. Wrote the paper: CR.