About the Authors

Elizabeth Buescher

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Tilman Achberger

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Idris Amusan

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Anthony Giannini

Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Cherie Ochsenfeld

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Ana Rus

Affiliation Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Brett Lahner

Affiliation Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Owen Hoekenga

Affiliation Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Elena Yakubova

Affiliation Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Jeffrey F. Harper

Affiliation University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

Mary Lou Guerinot

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Min Zhang

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

David E. Salt

Affiliation Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Ivan R. Baxter

ibaxter@danforthcenter.org

Affiliations Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Plant Genetics Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Donald Danforth Plant Sciences Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JFH MLG DES IB. Performed the experiments: AR BL EY. Analyzed the data: EB TA IA AG CO BL OH MZ IB. Wrote the paper: EB TA MLG DES IB.