About the Authors

Sherry A. Flint-Garcia

sherry.flint-garcia@ars.usda.gov (SFG); springer@umn.edu (NS)

Affiliation USDA-ARS, Plant Genetics Research Unit, and Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Edward S. Buckler

Affiliation USDA-ARS, U.S. Plant, Soil and Nutrition Research Unit, and Institute for Genomic Diversity and Department of Plant Breeding, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Peter Tiffin

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Elhan Ersoz

Affiliation USDA-ARS, U.S. Plant, Soil and Nutrition Research Unit, and Institute for Genomic Diversity and Department of Plant Breeding, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Nathan M. Springer

sherry.flint-garcia@ars.usda.gov (SFG); springer@umn.edu (NS)

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAFG EB NS. Performed the experiments: SAFG NS. Analyzed the data: SAFG PT NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PT ESE NS. Wrote the paper: NS.