About the Authors

Ignazio Verde

Contributed equally to this work with: Ignazio Verde, Nahla Bassil

ignazio.verde@entecra.it (IV); cpeace@wsu.edu (CP)

Affiliation Fruit Tree Research Center, Rome, Italy

Nahla Bassil

Contributed equally to this work with: Ignazio Verde, Nahla Bassil

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, National Clonal Germplasm Repository, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Simone Scalabrin

Affiliation Istituto di Genomica Applicata, Udine, Italy

Barbara Gilmore

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, National Clonal Germplasm Repository, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Cynthia T. Lawley

Affiliation Illumina Inc., Hayward, California, United States of America

Ksenija Gasic

Affiliation School of Agricultural, Forest and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

Diego Micheletti

Affiliation IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Campus UAB, Cerdanyola del Vallès (Bellaterra), Barcelona, Spain

Umesh R. Rosyara

Affiliation Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Federica Cattonaro

Affiliation Istituto di Genomica Applicata, Udine, Italy

Elisa Vendramin

Affiliation Fruit Tree Research Center, Rome, Italy

Dorrie Main

Affiliation Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Valeria Aramini

Affiliation Fruit Tree Research Center, Rome, Italy

Andrea L. Blas

Affiliation IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Campus UAB, Cerdanyola del Vallès (Bellaterra), Barcelona, Spain

Todd C. Mockler

Affiliations The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Douglas W. Bryant

Affiliations The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Intuitive Genomics, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Larry Wilhelm

Affiliation Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Michela Troggio

Affiliation The Istituto Agrario di San Michele all'Adige Research and Innovation Centre, Foundation Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy

Bryon Sosinski

Affiliation Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Maria José Aranzana

Affiliation IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Campus UAB, Cerdanyola del Vallès (Bellaterra), Barcelona, Spain

Pere Arús

Affiliation IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Campus UAB, Cerdanyola del Vallès (Bellaterra), Barcelona, Spain

Amy Iezzoni

Affiliation Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Michele Morgante

Affiliations Istituto di Genomica Applicata, Udine, Italy, Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Ambientali, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

Cameron Peace

ignazio.verde@entecra.it (IV); cpeace@wsu.edu (CP)

Affiliation Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IV NB PA AI MM CP. Performed the experiments: NB BG CTL FC EV VA ALB MT. Analyzed the data: SS KG D. Micheletti D. Main CTL UR FC IV TCM DWB MJA AI LW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IV NB CTL PA AI BS MM CP TCM DWB. Wrote the paper: IV NB SS KG D. Micheletti CP TCM UR.