About the Authors

Pedro Mendes-Moreira

pmm@esac.pt

Affiliations Departamento de Ciências Agronómicas, Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

Mara L. Alves

Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

Zlatko Satovic

Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Seed Science and Technology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

João Pacheco dos Santos

Affiliation Departamento de Ciências Agronómicas, Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

João Nina Santos

Affiliation Departamento de Ciências Agronómicas, Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

João Cândido Souza

Affiliation Departamento de Biologia/UFLA, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras-MG, Brasil

Silas E. Pêgo

Affiliation Fundação Bomfim, Braga, Portugal

Arnel R. Hallauer

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Maria Carlota Vaz Patto

Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MCVP SEP. Performed the experiments: PMM MLA JPS JNS JCS. Analyzed the data: PMM MLA ARH ZS MCVP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PMM MCVP. Wrote the paper: PMM MCVP. Critical reading from: ARH SEP JNS JPS JCS MLA ZS.