About the Authors

Rodrigo S. Rios

Affiliation Departamento de Biología, Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile

Cristian Salgado-Luarte

Affiliation Departamento de Biología, Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile

Ernesto Gianoli

egianoli@userena.cl

Affiliations Departamento de Biología, Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile, Departamento de Botánica, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EG CS-L RSR. Performed the experiments: EG CS-L RSR. Analyzed the data: EG CS-L RSR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EG CS-L RSR. Wrote the paper: EG CS-L RSR.