About the Authors

Andrea Piotti

Affiliations Plant Genetics Institute, National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università di Parma, Parma, Italy

Stefano Leonardi

Affiliation Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università di Parma, Parma, Italy

Myriam Heuertz

Affiliation Department of Forest Ecology and Genetics, CIFOR-INIA, Madrid Spain

Joukje Buiteveld

Affiliation Alterra, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Thomas Geburek

Affiliation Federal Research Centre for Forests, Vienna, Austria

Sophie Gerber

Affiliations UMR 1202 BIOGECO, INRA, Cestas, France, UMR 1202 BIOGECO, University of Bordeaux, Talence, France

Koen Kramer

Affiliation Alterra, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Cristina Vettori

Affiliation Plant Genetics Institute, National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

Giovanni Giuseppe Vendramin

giovanni.vendramin@igv.cnr.it

Affiliation Plant Genetics Institute, National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK TG JB SL CV GGV. Performed the experiments: JB TG CV GGV. Analyzed the data: AP SL MH GGV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP SL TG JB CV GGV. Wrote the paper: AP SL GGV. Contributed to analysis and interpretation of data: KK SG JB MH. Critically reviewed the manuscript: KK SG JB TG MH.