About the Authors

Marzena Ciszak

Affiliations CNR-Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Florence, Italy, LINV-Department of Plant Soil & Environmental Science, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Diego Comparini

Affiliation LINV-Department of Plant Soil & Environmental Science, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Barbara Mazzolai

Affiliation Center for Micro-BioRobotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Pontedera (PI), Italy

Frantisek Baluska

Affiliation Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

F. Tito Arecchi

Affiliations CNR-Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Florence, Italy, Department of Physics, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Tamás Vicsek

Affiliation Department of Biological Physics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Stefano Mancuso

stefano.mancuso@unifi.it

Affiliation LINV-Department of Plant Soil & Environmental Science, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC BM FB FTA SM. Performed the experiments: DC SM. Analyzed the data: MC TV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MC DC SM. Wrote the paper: MC FTA SM.