ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We are thankful to KWS Italy for providing the maize seeds. We also
acknowledge funding from the PhD course “Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e
Forestali” of the University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria and
the Department AGRARIA at Università Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria for
supporting Rosa Vescio. The authors thank the “Romeo ed Enrica
Invernizzi” foundation (Milan, Italy) for its kind support to the
metabolomics facility at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. We would
like to acknowledge support from the Consejería de Empleo,
Universidades, Empresa y Medio Ambiente of the CARM, through the
Fundación Séneca-Agencia de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Región de Murcia
(Spain) (BM-M, Grant Number: 21252/PD/19). We thank the “Stiftung
Südtiroler Sparkasse” for funding the PhD fellowship of Raphael
Tiziani. This work was furthermore supported by grants from the Free
University of Bolzano (NUMICS TN200E).