About the Authors

Giovanni Garau

ggarau@uniss.it (GG); sadeiana@uniss.it (SD)

Affiliation Dipartimento di Agraria, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Amedeo Palma

Affiliation Istituto di Scienze delle Produzioni Alimentari, CNR, Sassari, Italy

Gian Paolo Lauro

Affiliation Dipartimento di Agraria, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Elena Mele

Affiliation Dipartimento di Agraria, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Caterina Senette

Affiliation Dipartimento di Agraria, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Bruno Manunza

Affiliation Dipartimento di Agraria, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Salvatore Deiana

ggarau@uniss.it (GG); sadeiana@uniss.it (SD)

Affiliation Dipartimento di Agraria, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD GG. Performed the experiments: AP GG GPL EM CS BM. Analyzed the data: SD AP GG BM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GPL CS. Wrote the paper: SD GG.