About the Authors

Israel Pagán

Affiliation Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (UPM-INIA) and Departamento de Biotecnología, Campus Montegancedo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain

Nuria Montes

Affiliation Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (UPM-INIA) and Departamento de Biotecnología, Campus Montegancedo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain

Michael G. Milgroom

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Fernando García-Arenal

fernando.garciaarenal@upm.es

Affiliation Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (UPM-INIA) and Departamento de Biotecnología, Campus Montegancedo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FGA MGM. Performed the experiments: IP NM. Analyzed the data: IP. Wrote the paper: IP FGA MGM.