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.