About the Authors

Barbara Vinceti

b.vinceti@cgiar.org

Affiliation Headquarters, Bioversity International, Rome, Italy

Judy Loo

Affiliation Headquarters, Bioversity International, Rome, Italy

Hannes Gaisberger

Affiliation Headquarters, Bioversity International, Rome, Italy

Maarten J. van Zonneveld

Affiliations Regional Office for the Americas, Bioversity International, Cali, Colombia, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Silvio Schueler

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW), Vienna, Austria

Heino Konrad

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW), Vienna, Austria

Caroline A. C. Kadu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, School of Pure and Applied Sciences, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

Thomas Geburek

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW), Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BV JL HG TG HK. Performed the experiments: HG CK HK. Analyzed the data: HG MvZ CK HK SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HG MvZ HK TG. Wrote the paper: BV JL HG TG.