About the Authors

Ioannis Ganopoulos

Affiliations Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, Greece, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Filippos Aravanopoulos

Affiliations Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, Greece, Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Faculty of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Panagiotis Madesis

Affiliation Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, Greece

Konstantinos Pasentsis

Affiliation Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, Greece

Irene Bosmali

Affiliation Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, Greece

Christos Ouzounis

Affiliations Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, Greece, Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Athanasios Tsaftaris

tsaft@certh.gr

Affiliations Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, Greece, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IG FA PM AT. Performed the experiments: IG. Analyzed the data: KP IB CO. Wrote the paper: FA PM AT.