About the Authors

Jérôme Bartholomé

Affiliation BIOGECO, INRA, Univ. Bordeaux, 33610, Cestas, France

Marco CAM Bink

Affiliation Biometris, Wageningen University and Research Centre, NL-6700 AC, Wageningen, Netherlands

Joost van Heerwaarden

Affiliation Biometris, Wageningen University and Research Centre, NL-6700 AC, Wageningen, Netherlands

Emilie Chancerel

Affiliation BIOGECO, INRA, Univ. Bordeaux, 33610, Cestas, France

Christophe Boury

Affiliation BIOGECO, INRA, Univ. Bordeaux, 33610, Cestas, France

Isabelle Lesur

Affiliations BIOGECO, INRA, Univ. Bordeaux, 33610, Cestas, France, HelixVenture, Mérignac, France

Fikret Isik

Affiliation North Carolina State University, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Laurent Bouffier

Affiliation BIOGECO, INRA, Univ. Bordeaux, 33610, Cestas, France

Christophe Plomion

christophe.plomion@inra.fr

Affiliation BIOGECO, INRA, Univ. Bordeaux, 33610, Cestas, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. The commercial affiliation of IL to HelixVenture does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JB CP MCAMB FI JVH LB. Data curation: JB CP IL EC. Formal analysis: JB CP. Funding acquisition: CP. Investigation: JB CP EC CB IL. Methodology: JB CP LB. Project administration: CP. Resources: CP. Software: JB. Supervision: CP. Visualization: JB. Writing – original draft: JB CP. Writing – review & editing: JB CP MCAMB JVH FI LB.