About the Authors

Adrien Gauthier

Affiliation UMR 1347 Agroécologie, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

Sophie Trouvelot

Affiliation UMR 1347 Agroécologie, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

Jani Kelloniemi

Affiliation UMR 1347 Agroécologie, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

Patrick Frettinger

Affiliation UMR 1347 Agroécologie, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

David Wendehenne

Affiliation UMR 1347 Agroécologie, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

Xavier Daire

Affiliation UMR 1347 Agroécologie, INRA, Dijon, France

Jean-Marie Joubert

Affiliation Laboratoires Goëmar, Saint Malo, France

Alberto Ferrarini

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Verona, Verona, Italy

Massimo Delledonne

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Verona, Verona, Italy

Victor Flors

Affiliation Plant Physiology Section, University of Jaume I, Castellón, Spain

Benoit Poinssot

benoit.poinssot@dijon.inra.fr

Affiliation UMR 1347 Agroécologie, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

Competing Interests

Jean-Marie Joubert is employed by “Laboratoires Goëmar”. This affiliation to this company does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG ST JK XD BP. Performed the experiments: AG ST JK PF AF VF BP. Analyzed the data: AG JK PF AF VF BP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DW XD JMJ MD VF BP. Wrote the paper: AG ST JK PF DW XD JMJ AF MD VF BP.