Funder	Grant reference number	Author
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Institute Strategic Program Grant at the Earlham Institute (formerly The Genome Analysis Centre), Norwich	BB/J004669/1 (Allocated under CCC-15)	Saskia A. Hogenhout, Linda M. Field, Brian Fenton, Alex C. C. Wilson, Georg Jander and Denis Tagu
BBSRC – Industrial Partnership Award (IPA) with Syngenta Ltd	BB/L002108/1	Saskia A. Hogenhout, David Swarbreck and Cock van Oosterhout
BBSRC – Institute Strategic Program Grant (ISPG) Biotic Interactions for Crop Productivity (BIO)	BB/J004553/1	Giles Oldroyd, Richard Morris and project leaders of the BIO ISPG, including Saskia A. Hogenhout
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) – National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA)	2010-65105-20558	Alex C. C. Wilson, Georg Jander
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.