About the Authors

Sven Buerki

Contributed equally to this work with: Sven Buerki, Sarah Jose

s.buerki@kew.org (SB); f.forest@kew.org (FF)

Affiliation Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom

Sarah Jose

Contributed equally to this work with: Sven Buerki, Sarah Jose

Affiliation Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom

Shrirang R. Yadav

Affiliation Department of Botany, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India

Peter Goldblatt

Affiliation Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

John C. Manning

Affiliation Compton Herbarium, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Claremont, South Africa

Félix Forest

s.buerki@kew.org (SB); f.forest@kew.org (FF)

Affiliation Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB PG JCM FF. Performed the experiments: SJ. Analyzed the data: SB FF SJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FF JCM PG SRY. Wrote the paper: SB FF SJ.