About the Authors

Xinwei Chen

xinwei.chen@scri.ac.uk (XC); Robbie.Waugh@scri.ac.uk (RW)

Affiliation Genetics Programme, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom

Christine A. Hackett

Affiliation Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BioSS), Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom

Rients E. Niks

Affiliation Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Graduate School for Experimental Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Peter E. Hedley

Affiliation Genetics Programme, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom

Clare Booth

Affiliation Genetics Programme, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom

Arnis Druka

Affiliation Genetics Programme, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom

Thierry C. Marcel

Current address: UMR 1290 INRA AgroParisTech BIOGER-CPP, INRA Centre de Recherche de Versailles-Grignon, Versailles, France

Affiliation Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Graduate School for Experimental Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Anton Vels

Affiliation Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Graduate School for Experimental Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Micha Bayer

Affiliation Genetics Programme, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom

Iain Milne

Affiliation Genetics Programme, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom

Jenny Morris

Affiliation Genetics Programme, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom

Luke Ramsay

Affiliation Genetics Programme, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom

David Marshall

Affiliation Genetics Programme, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom

Linda Cardle

Affiliation Genetics Programme, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom

Robbie Waugh

xinwei.chen@scri.ac.uk (XC); Robbie.Waugh@scri.ac.uk (RW)

Affiliation Genetics Programme, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XC CAH AD LR DM LC RW. Performed the experiments: XC. Wrote the paper: XC RW. Statistical analysis of eQTL: CAH. Pathogen infection and sampling: REN TCM, AV. Microarray and data deposition: PH. Microarray: CB JM. Custom array design: AD LR DM LC. Data deposition: MB IM.