About the Authors

Acacio Aparecido Navarrete

Affiliation Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture CENA, University of São Paulo USP, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil

Tatiana Rosa Diniz

Affiliation Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture CENA, University of São Paulo USP, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil

Lucas Palma Perez Braga

Affiliation Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture CENA, University of São Paulo USP, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil

Genivaldo Gueiros Zacarias Silva

Affiliation Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Julio Cezar Franchini

Affiliation Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Londrina, PR, Brazil

Raffaella Rossetto

Affiliation São Paulo's Agency for Agribusiness Technology, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil

Robert Alan Edwards

Affiliations Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America, Division of Mathematics and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America

Siu Mui Tsai

tsai@cena.usp.br

Affiliation Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture CENA, University of São Paulo USP, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AAN SMT. Performed the experiments: AAN RR TRD LPPB JCF. Analyzed the data: AAN JCF GGZS RAE. Wrote the paper: AAN SMT.