About the Authors

John P. Reganold

reganold@wsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Preston K. Andrews

Affiliation Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Jennifer R. Reeve

Affiliation Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Lynne Carpenter-Boggs

Affiliation Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Christopher W. Schadt

Affiliation Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

J. Richard Alldredge

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Carolyn F. Ross

Affiliation School of Food Science, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Neal M. Davies

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Jizhong Zhou

Affiliation Department of Botany and Microbiology, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPR PA JR LCB. Performed the experiments: JPR PA JR LCB CS CR ND. Analyzed the data: JPR PA JR LCB JRA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JPR PA CS CR ND JZ. Wrote the paper: JPR PA JR LCB. Set up and managed the overall study: JPR.