About the Authors

Athos Silva de Oliveira

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

Fernando Lucas Melo

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

Alice Kazuko Inoue-Nagata

Affiliation Embrapa Vegetables, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

Tatsuya Nagata

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

Elliot Watanabe Kitajima

Affiliation University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

Renato Oliveira Resende

rresende@unb.br

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ASO FLM AKI ROR. Performed the experiments: ASO. Analyzed the data: ASO FLM ROR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AKI TN EWK. Wrote the paper: ASO FLM.