About the Authors

Roberta Arciuolo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Sustainable Crop Production, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza (PC), Italy

Marco Camardo Leggieri

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Sustainable Crop Production, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza (PC), Italy

Giorgio Chiusa

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Sustainable Crop Production, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza (PC), Italy

Giuseppe Castello

Roles Resources

Affiliation SOREMARTEC ITALIA S.r.l., Piazzale Pietro Ferrero 1, Alba (CN), Italy

Giuseppe Genova

Roles Resources

Affiliation SOREMARTEC ITALIA S.r.l., Piazzale Pietro Ferrero 1, Alba (CN), Italy

Nicola Spigolon

Roles Resources

Affiliation SOREMARTEC ITALIA S.r.l., Piazzale Pietro Ferrero 1, Alba (CN), Italy

Paola Battilani

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

paola.battilani@unicatt.it

Affiliation Department of Sustainable Crop Production, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza (PC), Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: authors Giuseppe Castello, Giuseppe Genova, and Nicola Spigolon are paid employees of the company SOREMARTEC ITALIA S.r.l. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare.