About the Authors

Elisabetta Schilirò

Affiliation Departamento de Protección de Cultivos, Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain

Massimo Ferrara

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Chimica Agro-forestale ed Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy

Franco Nigro

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Chimica Agro-forestale ed Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy

Jesús Mercado-Blanco

jesus.mercado@ias.csic.es

Affiliation Departamento de Protección de Cultivos, Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES MF JMB. Performed the experiments: ES MF JMB. Analyzed the data: ES MF FN JMB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMB. Wrote the paper: ES MF FN JMB.