About the Authors

Sandrine Charles

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

sandrine.charles@univ-lyon1.fr

Affiliation Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, UMR CNRS 5558, Villeurbanne, France

Dan Wu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, UMR CNRS 5558, Villeurbanne, France

Virginie Ducrot

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Bayer AG, Crop Science, Monheim, Germany

Competing Interests

One of the author [VD] is employed by a commercial company (Bayer AG, Crop Science). This author collected and made available the raw data used for the modelling work and participated to the preparation of the manuscript but had no role in the study design, data analysis and data interpretation. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.