About the Authors

Anna Vittoria Carluccio

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, Consiglio Nazionale delle ricerche, Bari, Italia, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria

Maria Isabella Prigigallo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, Consiglio Nazionale delle ricerche, Bari, Italia

Tabata Rosas-Diaz

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, China

Rosa Lozano-Duran

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, China, Chinese Academy of Sciences–John Innes Centre Center of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Livia Stavolone

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

livia.stavolone@ipsp.cnr.it, l.stavolone@cgiar.org

Affiliations Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, Consiglio Nazionale delle ricerche, Bari, Italia, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.