About the Authors

Maria Teresa Giardi

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Teresa Giardi, Giuseppina Rea

Affiliation Institute of Crystallography, National Research Council of Italy, CNR, Rome, Italy

Giuseppina Rea

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Teresa Giardi, Giuseppina Rea

Affiliation Institute of Crystallography, National Research Council of Italy, CNR, Rome, Italy

Maya D. Lambreva

Affiliation Institute of Crystallography, National Research Council of Italy, CNR, Rome, Italy

Amina Antonacci

Affiliation Institute of Crystallography, National Research Council of Italy, CNR, Rome, Italy

Sandro Pastorelli

Affiliation Institute of Crystallography, National Research Council of Italy, CNR, Rome, Italy

Ivo Bertalan

Affiliation Institute of Plant Physiology, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Udo Johanningmeier

Affiliation Institute of Plant Physiology, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Autar K. Mattoo

autar.mattoo@ars.usda.gov

Affiliation The Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MTG UJ. Performed the experiments: MTG GR ML AA SP. Analyzed the data: MTG GR ML AKM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IB. Wrote the paper: AKM. Coordinated the project, designed flight experiments, performed experiments and analyzed data: MTG. Performed the flight and ground-based experiments and analyzed data: ML GR. Contributed to flight and ground-based experiments: AA SP. Designed mutant strategy and supported the flight experiments: UJ. Produced mutants: IB. Contributed to manuscript preparation: MTG ML GR. Critically analyzed data, recommended excitation pressure analysis and wrote the paper: AKM.