About the Authors

Pudota B. Bhaskar

Affiliation Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Muthusubramanian Venkateshwaran

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Lei Wu

Affiliation Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Jean-Michel Ané

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Jiming Jiang

jjiang1@wisc.edu

Affiliation Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PBB JJ. Performed the experiments: PBB MV LW. Analyzed the data: PBB MV LW JJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMA. Wrote the paper: PBB JJ.