About the Authors

Paolo Facella

Contributed equally to this work with: Paolo Facella, Loredana Lopez, Fabrizio Carbone

Affiliation ENEA, Trisaia Research Center, Rotondella (MT), Italy

Loredana Lopez

Contributed equally to this work with: Paolo Facella, Loredana Lopez, Fabrizio Carbone

Affiliation ENEA, Trisaia Research Center, Rotondella (MT), Italy

Fabrizio Carbone

Contributed equally to this work with: Paolo Facella, Loredana Lopez, Fabrizio Carbone

Affiliation ENEA, Trisaia Research Center, Rotondella (MT), Italy

David W. Galbraith

Affiliation BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Bioresearch and Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Giovanni Giuliano

Affiliation ENEA, Casaccia Research Center, Rome, Italy

Gaetano Perrotta

gaetano.perrotta@trisaia.enea.it

Affiliation ENEA, Trisaia Research Center, Rotondella (MT), Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PF LL DWG GG GP. Performed the experiments: PF LL FC GP. Analyzed the data: PF LL FC GP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PF LL DWG GP. Wrote the paper: PF LL GG GP.