About the Authors

Léia Cecilia de Lima Fávaro

Affiliation Empraba Agroenergia, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

Fernando Lucas de Melo

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

Carlos Ivan Aguilar-Vildoso

Affiliation Empraba Mandioca e Fruticultura, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Cruz das Almas, Bahia, Brazil

Welington Luiz Araújo

welingtonluiz@umc.br

Current address: Department of Microbiology, Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Microbial Ecology, NIB, University of Mogi das Cruzes, Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LCdLF WLA. Performed the experiments: LCdLF CIAV. Analyzed the data: LCdLF FLdM CIAV WLA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WLA. Wrote the paper: LCdLF FLdM WLA.