About the Authors

Nathalie Villa-Vialaneix

nathalie.villa@toulouse.inra.fr

Affiliation INRA, UR875, Unité de Biométrie et Intelligence Artificielle (UBIA), Castanet Tolosan, France

Laurence Liaubet

Affiliation INRA, UMR444 Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet Tolosan, France

Thibault Laurent

Affiliation Toulouse School of Economics, Université Toulouse 1, Toulouse, France

Pierre Cherel

Affiliation Hendrix Genetics RTC, St. Jean en Braye, France

Adrien Gamot

Affiliation INRA, UMR444 Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet Tolosan, France

Magali SanCristobal

Affiliation INRA, UMR444 Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet Tolosan, France

Competing Interests

Pierre Cherel is employed by Hendrix Genetics RTC. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL PC MSC. Performed the experiments: LL. Analyzed the data: NVV LL TL AG MSC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NVV LL MSC. Wrote the paper: NVV LL MSC.