About the Authors

Nada Šurbanovski

nada.surbanovski@fmach.it

Affiliations Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Trentino, Italy, East Malling Research, East Malling, Kent, United Kingdom

Daniel J. Sargent

Affiliation Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Trentino, Italy

Mark A. Else

Affiliation East Malling Research, East Malling, Kent, United Kingdom

David W. Simpson

Affiliation East Malling Research, East Malling, Kent, United Kingdom

Hanma Zhang

Affiliation Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Olga M. Grant

Affiliation University College Dublin Forestry, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS OMG HZ DJS. Performed the experiments: NS DJS. Analyzed the data: NS DJS MAE HZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OMG DWS HZ. Wrote the paper: MS DJS OMG HZ MAE DWS.