Acknowledgement
This research was supported by the Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica (PICT RAICES 0959), Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (EXA 928/19), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET) and Comision de Investigaciones Cientificas (CIC, 1480/18). FAM is a PhD fellow from CONICET. CAC, MCT and MXS are members of the research staff from CONICET. JRM is researcher from CIC. We thank Dr. Candela Lobato and Dr. Ana Laxalt for providing us fungal strains and tomato cells, respectively. We also thank Dr. Diego Fiol and Dr. Ruben D. Conde for his critical reading of our manuscript. This study was funded by Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica (PICT RAICES 0959), Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (EXA 928/19), CONICET and Comision de Investigaciones Cientificas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (CIC, 1480/18).
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