About the Authors

Octavio Martínez

omartine@ira.cinvestav.mx

Affiliation Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Irapuato, Guanajuato, México

M. Humberto Reyes-Valdés

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding, Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro, Saltillo, Coahuila, México

Luis Herrera-Estrella

Affiliation Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Irapuato, Guanajuato, México

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OM MHRV. Performed the experiments: OM. Analyzed the data: OM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHRV LHE. Wrote the paper: OM LHE. Designed the formula for Target Specificity (TS): MHRV.