About the Authors

Andres X. Medina-Salguero

Contributed equally to this work with: Andres X. Medina-Salguero, Juan F. Cornejo-Franco

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas del Ecuador, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador

Juan F. Cornejo-Franco

Contributed equally to this work with: Andres X. Medina-Salguero, Juan F. Cornejo-Franco

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas del Ecuador, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador

Sam Grinstead

Roles Data curation

Affiliation National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, United States of America

Joseph Mowery

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Electron and Confocal Microscopy Unit, USDA ARS, Beltsville, MD, United States of America

Dimitre Mollov

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, United States of America

Diego F. Quito-Avila

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

dquito@espol.edu.ec

Affiliations Centro de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas del Ecuador, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador, Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.