About the Authors

Mahesh Chandra

mchandra@isa.ulisboa.pt

Affiliation Laboratório de Microbiologia, Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food (LEAF), Instituto Superior de Agronomia, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349–017 Lisboa, Portugal

Inês Oro

Affiliation Laboratório de Microbiologia, Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food (LEAF), Instituto Superior de Agronomia, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349–017 Lisboa, Portugal

Suzana Ferreira-Dias

Affiliation Centro de Engenharia dos Biossistemas (CEER), Instituto Superior de Agronomia, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349–017 Lisboa, Portugal

Manuel Malfeito-Ferreira

Affiliation Laboratório de Microbiologia, Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food (LEAF), Instituto Superior de Agronomia, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349–017 Lisboa, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC MMF. Performed the experiments: MC IO. Analyzed the data: MC MMF SFD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MMF. Wrote the paper: MC MMF SFD.