About the Authors

Jaime F. Martínez-García

jaume.martinez@cragenomica.es

Affiliations Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Consortium CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Barcelona, Spain

Marçal Gallemí

Affiliation Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Consortium CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Barcelona, Spain

María José Molina-Contreras

Affiliation Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Consortium CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Barcelona, Spain

Briardo Llorente

Affiliation Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Consortium CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Barcelona, Spain

Maycon R. R. Bevilaqua

Current address: UEM Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Departamento de Biotecnologia, Biologia Celular e Genética, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

Affiliations Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Consortium CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Barcelona, Spain, CAPES foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil, Brasilia - DF, Brazil

Peter H. Quail

Affiliations Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, US Department of Agriculture/Agriculture Research Service, Plant Gene Expression Center, Albany, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JFMG PHQ MG. Performed the experiments: JFMG MG MJMC BL MB. Analyzed the data: JFMG MG MJMC BL MB PHQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JFMG PHQ. Wrote the paper: JFMG PHQ.