Acknowledgments
The authors thank Prof. Dr. Els Van Damme (Ghent University) for
providing P. syringae DC3000, Prof. Dr. Eduardo de la Pena (Ghent
University) and Lidia Blanco Sánchez (Institute for Mediterranean and
Subtropical Horticulture) for providing tomato NahG and
corresponding Moneymaker wild type seeds, Lien De Smet (Ghent
University) for technical support with mRNA extraction and RT-qPCR, and
Emanuele Medico (Eastman) for organizing and overseeing the field trial.
This work was supported a Baekeland grant (HBC.2017.0574) awarded to WD,
which was jointly funded by the Flemish government’s Agency for
Innovation and Entrepreneurship (VLAIO) and Taminco, an Eastman
subsidiary. Two patent applications describing the use of C4H inhibitors
as crop protection products have been published (WO2019122107A1 and
WO2020127216A1). WD, BVH and TK are the inventors of patent
WO2019122107A1 and WD, TVL, BVH and TK are the inventors of patent
WO2020127216A1. The other authors have no potential conflicts of
interest to disclose.