Acknowledgements
This study greatly profited from the exchange of ideas within the CLONIX consortium. We warmly thank Fabien Halkett for his valuable comments that improved the clarity of the manuscript and Myriam Valero, the CLONIX consortium and particularly Ronan Becheler and Diane Bailleul for useful discussions.
This work was funded by the French National Research Agency (projects CLONIX: ANR-11-BSV7-007 and Clonix2D ANR-18-CE32-0001) and the INVAMAT project (Plant Health and Environment Division of the French National Institute of Agricultural Research).
This preprint has been reviewed and recommended by Peer Community In Evolutionary Biology (https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.evolbiol.100078). We thank Myriam Heuertz, Marcela Van Loo and David Macaya-Sanz for their constructive comments that enhanced the manuscript.