About the Authors

Claude Dufour

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Département de biologie, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada

Valérie Fournier

Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre de recherche et innovation sur les végétaux, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada

Pierre Giovenazzo

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

pierre.giovenazzo@bio.ulaval.ca

Affiliation Département de biologie, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: The research grant PG received from Bayer Crop Science does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.