About the Authors

Ivana Puglisi

Contributed equally to this work with: Ivana Puglisi, Alessandro De Patrizio

Affiliations Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, Dipartimento di Agraria, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Feo di Vito, Reggio Calabria, Italy

Alessandro De Patrizio

Contributed equally to this work with: Ivana Puglisi, Alessandro De Patrizio

Affiliation Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Leonardo Schena

Affiliation Dipartimento di Agraria, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Feo di Vito, Reggio Calabria, Italy

Thomas Jung

Affiliations Phytophthora Research Center Mendel University, Zemedelska 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic, Phytophthora Research and Consultancy, Am Rain 9, Nußdorf, Germany

Maria Evoli

Affiliation Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Antonella Pane

Affiliation Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Nguyen Van Hoa

Affiliation Southern Horticultural Research Institute, My Tho, Tien Giang, Vietnam

Mai Van Tri

Affiliation Southern Horticultural Research Institute, My Tho, Tien Giang, Vietnam

Sandra Wright

Affiliation Department of Electronics, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden

Mauritz Ramstedt

Affiliation Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish Agricultural University (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden

Christer Olsson

Affiliation Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden

Roberto Faedda

Affiliation Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Gaetano Magnano di San Lio

Affiliation Dipartimento di Agraria, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Feo di Vito, Reggio Calabria, Italy

Santa Olga Cacciola

olgacacciola@unict.it

Affiliation Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SOC CO SW NVH MR TJ. Data curation: ADP IP RF SOC. Formal analysis: IP SOC LS. Funding acquisition: SW MR CO SOC NVH. Investigation: ADP IP ME AP MVT. Methodology: IP LS SOC. Project administration: MR. Resources: AP SOC MVT CO. Software: ADP IP RF. Supervision: SOC. Validation: IP LS SOC. Visualization: SOC IP RF. Writing – original draft: IP SOC. Writing – review & editing: SOC IP LS TJ GMDSL.