About the Authors

John Jairo Franco-Hermida

Contributed equally to this work with: John Jairo Franco-Hermida, María Fernanda Quintero

Affiliation Technical Department, G.R. Chía S.A., Centro Empresarial Chía, Chía, Colombia

María Fernanda Quintero

Contributed equally to this work with: John Jairo Franco-Hermida, María Fernanda Quintero

mguzman@ual.es (JMG); maria.quintero@uaslp.mx (MFQ)

Affiliation Department of Controlled Production Systems, Faculty of Agronomy, San Luis Potosí Autonomous University, San Luis Potosí, México

Raúl Iskander Cabrera

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, Bridgeton, NJ, United States of America

José Miguel Guzman

mguzman@ual.es (JMG); maria.quintero@uaslp.mx (MFQ)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, cei A3 CIEMBITAL Almeria University, Almería, Spain

Competing Interests

We have the following interests: This study was financially supported by GR Chia, Cundinamarca, Colombia under contract. John J. Franco-Hermida is employed byGR Chia. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RIC JMG. Data curation: JJFH MFQ. Formal analysis: JJFH MFQ. Funding acquisition: JJFH MFQ. Investigation: JJFH MFQ RIC JMG. Methodology: JJFH MFQ RIC JMG. Project administration: RIC JMG. Resources: JJFH MFQ. Supervision: RIC JMG. Validation: JJFH MFQ. Visualization: RIC JMG. Writing – original draft: JJFH MFQ RIC JMG. Writing – review & editing: JJFH MFQ RIC JMG.