About the Authors

Hamid Reza Eisvand

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

eisvand.hr@lu.ac.ir

Affiliation Department of Plant Production Engineering and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran

Donald L. Smith

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflict: Donald L. Smith received funding from Mitacs. 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.