About the Authors

Rodrigo Iván Contreras-Soto

Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo Iván Contreras-Soto, Freddy Mora

contrerasudec@gmail.com

Affiliation Departamento de Agronomia, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Av. Colombo, Maringá, PR, Brasil

Freddy Mora

Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo Iván Contreras-Soto, Freddy Mora

Affiliation Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Talca, Casilla, Talca, Chile

Marco Antônio Rott de Oliveira

Affiliation COODETEC, BR, Cascavel, PR, Brasil

Wilson Higashi

Affiliation COODETEC, BR, Cascavel, PR, Brasil

Carlos Alberto Scapim

Affiliation Departamento de Agronomia, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Av. Colombo, Maringá, PR, Brasil

Ivan Schuster

Affiliation Dow Agrosciences, Rod. Anhanguera, Cravinhos, SP, Brazil

Competing Interests

Marco Antônio Rott de Oliveira and Wilson Higashi are employees of COODETEC, and Ivan Schuster is an employee of Dow Agrosciences. There aren't any patents, products in development or marketed products to declare in relation to this study. Commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE's policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: IS RICS. Data curation: IS RICS MARO WH. Formal analysis: IS RICS FM CAS. Funding acquisition: IS. Investigation: IS MARO WH. Methodology: IS RICS FM CAS. Project administration: IS. Resources: IS. Software: RICS FM. Supervision: IS. Validation: IS CAS. Visualization: IS CAS. Writing – original draft: RICS FM IS. Writing – review & editing: IS FM CAS.