About the Authors

Silvia Dal Santo

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia Dal Santo, Alessandro Vannozzi

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Alessandro Vannozzi

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia Dal Santo, Alessandro Vannozzi

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment, University of Padova, Legnaro, Padova, Italy

Giovanni Battista Tornielli

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Marianna Fasoli

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Luca Venturini

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Mario Pezzotti

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Sara Zenoni

sara.zenoni@univr.it

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SZ SDS AV. Performed the experiments: SDS AV MF. Analyzed the data: SDS AV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AV MF LV. Wrote the paper: SDS AV GBT SZ. Provided guidance of the whole study: MP.