About the Authors

Olga De Castro

Contributed equally to this work with: Olga De Castro, Antonietta Di Maio

olga.decastro@unina.it, odecastr@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Antonietta Di Maio

Contributed equally to this work with: Olga De Castro, Antonietta Di Maio

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Mirko Di Febbraro

Affiliation Department of Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise, Pesche (Isernia), Italy

Gennaro Imparato

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Information Technology Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Michele Innangi

Affiliation Department of Environmental, Biological, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, Second University of Naples, Caserta, Italy

Errol Véla

Affiliation Research unit Botany and Modelling of Plant Architecture and Vegetation, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Bruno Menale

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ODC. Formal analysis: ODC ADM GI MDF MI. Funding acquisition: ODC. Methodology: ODC MDF MI. Project administration: ODC. Resources: ODC BM EV. Software: ODC ADM GI MDF MI. Validation: ODC ADM GI MDF MI. Writing – original draft: ODC.