About the Authors

William Pietro-Souza

Contributed equally to this work with: William Pietro-Souza, Marcos Antônio Soares

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Botany and Ecology, Laboratory of Biotechnology and Microbial Ecology, Institute of Biosciences, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil, Department of Botany and Ecology, Institute of Biosciences, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil

Ivani Souza Mello

Roles Data curation, Methodology

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Botany and Ecology, Laboratory of Biotechnology and Microbial Ecology, Institute of Biosciences, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil, Department of Botany and Ecology, Institute of Biosciences, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil

Suzana Junges Vendruscullo

Roles Methodology

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Botany and Ecology, Institute of Biosciences, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil

Gilvan Ferreira da Silva

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

Cátia Nunes da Cunha

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany and Ecology, Institute of Biosciences, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil

James Francis White

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Marcos Antônio Soares

Contributed equally to this work with: William Pietro-Souza, Marcos Antônio Soares

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

drmasoares@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Botany and Ecology, Laboratory of Biotechnology and Microbial Ecology, Institute of Biosciences, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil, Department of Botany and Ecology, Institute of Biosciences, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.