About the Authors

Satish K. Guttikonda

Contributed equally to this work with: Satish K. Guttikonda, Pradeep Marri

SKGuttikonda@dow.com

Affiliation Dow AgroSciences LLC, 9330 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46268, United States of America

Pradeep Marri

Contributed equally to this work with: Satish K. Guttikonda, Pradeep Marri

Affiliation Dow AgroSciences LLC, 9330 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46268, United States of America

Jafar Mammadov

Affiliation Dow AgroSciences LLC, 9330 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46268, United States of America

Liang Ye

Affiliation Dow AgroSciences LLC, 9330 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46268, United States of America

Khaing Soe

Affiliation Dow AgroSciences LLC, 9330 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46268, United States of America

Kimberly Richey

Affiliation Dow AgroSciences LLC, 9330 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46268, United States of America

James Cruse

Affiliation Dow AgroSciences LLC, 9330 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46268, United States of America

Meibao Zhuang

Affiliation Dow AgroSciences LLC, 9330 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46268, United States of America

Zhifang Gao

Affiliation Dow AgroSciences LLC, 9330 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46268, United States of America

Clive Evans

Affiliation Dow AgroSciences LLC, 9330 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46268, United States of America

Steve Rounsley

Affiliation Dow AgroSciences LLC, 9330 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46268, United States of America

Siva P. Kumpatla

Affiliation Dow AgroSciences LLC, 9330 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46268, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. All authors are employed by commercial company "Dow AgroSciences LLC" and which do not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SKG PM JM LY ZG. Performed the experiments: SKG PM CE KS KR JC MZ. Analyzed the data: SKG PM JM ZG LY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SKG PM LY KS CE. Wrote the paper: JM SKG PM LY SPK. Developed concept design, coordination of the study, provided resources and gave valuable suggestions in the course of the research: SPK SR.