About the Authors

Bill Hendrix

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

bill.hendrix@bayer.com

Current address: Bayer Crop Science, West Sacramento, California, United States of America

Affiliation Bayer Crop Science, Woodland, California, United States of America

Paul Hoffer

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

Current address: Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, Radiological Preparedness Unit, Mather, California, United States of America

Affiliation Bayer Crop Science, Woodland, California, United States of America

Rick Sanders

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bayer Crop Science, Woodland, California, United States of America

Steve Schwartz

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: InnerPlant, Davis, California, United States of America

Affiliation Bayer Crop Science, Woodland, California, United States of America

Wei Zheng

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Hangzhou Huadi Group Co., Hangzhou, China

Affiliation Bayer Crop Science, Woodland, California, United States of America

Brian Eads

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bayer Crop Science, Chesterfield Parkway, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Danielle Taylor

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bayer Crop Science, Chesterfield Parkway, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jill Deikman

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bayer Crop Science, Woodland, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors were employed by Monsanto Company (now Bayer Crop Science) while conducting this research. This study was funded by Monsanto Company. Monsanto Company has filed a patent relevant to this study: ‘’Compositions and methods for delivery of a macromolecule or macromolecular complexes into a plant” (16/870,173). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.