About the Authors

Sotirios Vasileiadis

Affiliation Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry, Piacenza, Italy

Edoardo Puglisi

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Piacenza, Italy

Maria Arena

Affiliation Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry, Piacenza, Italy

Fabrizio Cappa

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Piacenza, Italy

Pier S. Cocconcelli

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Piacenza, Italy

Marco Trevisan

marco.trevisan@unicatt.it

Affiliation Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry, Piacenza, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SV. Analyzed the data: SV EP MA FC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PSC MT. Wrote the paper: SV. Provided discussion-evaluation of report: EP MA FC PSC MT. Provided evaluation of original idea: MT.