About the Authors

Federico Martinelli

Affiliations Plant Sciences Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Dipartimento di Sistemi Agro-Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Palermo, Italy

Sandra L. Uratsu

Affiliation Plant Sciences Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Ute Albrecht

Affiliation U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Fort Pierce, Florida, United States of America

Russell L. Reagan

Affiliation Plant Sciences Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

My L. Phu

Affiliation Plant Sciences Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Monica Britton

Affiliation Bioinformatics Core, Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Vincent Buffalo

Affiliation Bioinformatics Core, Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Joseph Fass

Affiliation Bioinformatics Core, Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Elizabeth Leicht

Affiliations Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Center for Computational Science and Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Weixiang Zhao

Affiliation Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Dawei Lin

Affiliation Bioinformatics Core, Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Raissa D'Souza

Affiliations Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Center for Computational Science and Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Cristina E. Davis

Affiliation Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Kim D. Bowman

Affiliation U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Fort Pierce, Florida, United States of America

Abhaya M. Dandekar

amdandekar@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Plant Sciences Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMD FM KDB. Performed the experiments: FM SLU UA MLP. Analyzed the data: FM RLR MB VB JF EL WZ DL RD CED AMD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FM SLU UA MLP KDB AMD. Wrote the paper: FM AMD. Conceived and designed the experiments: AMD FM KDB. Performed the experiments: FM SLU UA MLP. Analyzed the data: FM RLR MB VB JF EL WZ DL RD CED AMD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FM SLU UA MLP KDB AMD. Wrote the paper: FM AMD.