About the Authors

Andrea X. Silva

Affiliation Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

Georg Jander

Affiliation Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Horacio Samaniego

Affiliations Instituto de Silvicultura, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

John S Ramsey

Current address: Agave BioSystems, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Christian C. Figueroa

christianfigueroa@uach.cl

Affiliation Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

Competing Interests

The authors declare that JSR was a former Ph.D. student of GJ at the Boyce Thomson Institute for Plant Research in Cornell during the time the data reported in this manuscript was collected. Currently, JSR is hired at Agave BioSystems (401 E State St # 200 Ithaca, New York 14850, United States of America). 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: CCF AXS. Performed the experiments: AXS JSR. Analyzed the data: AXS JSR HS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CCF AXS GJ. Wrote the paper: AXS CCF GJ. Data interpretation: AXS CCF GJ.