About the Authors

Zonlehoua Coulibali

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

Affiliation Department of Soils and Agrifood Engineering, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada

Athyna Nancy Cambouris

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Quebec Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Québec City, Québec, Canada

Serge-Étienne Parent

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

serge-etienne.parent.1@ulaval.ca

Affiliation Department of Soils and Agrifood Engineering, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

All the funders (Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, Quebec Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Centre SEVE, Patate Dolbec Inc., Groupe Gosselin FG, Agriparmentier Inc., Patate Laurentienne, Ferme Bergeron-Niquet, and Patates Lac-St- Jean) have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.