About the Authors

Silvana Cardoso

silvana@itqb.unl.pt

Affiliations Laboratory of Plant Cell Biotechnology, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Oeiras, Portugal, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Winston Lau

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom

José Eiras Dias

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária, Instituto Nacional de Recursos Biológicos, Dois Portos, Portugal

Pedro Fevereiro

Affiliation Laboratory of Plant Cell Biotechnology, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Oeiras, Portugal

Nikolas Maniatis

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC WL JED PF NM. Performed the experiments: SC. Analyzed the data: SC WL NM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SC JED PF NM. Wrote the paper: SC WL JED PF NM.