About the Authors

Aaron J. Gassmann

aaronjg@iastate.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Jennifer L. Petzold-Maxwell

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Ryan S. Keweshan

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Mike W. Dunbar

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

Aaron Gassmann has received research funding, not related to this project, from Dow, Monsanto, Pioneer, Syngenta, and Bayer CropScience. Aaron Gassmann has filed a provisional patent for the seedling based assay described in this manuscript. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AJG. Performed the experiments: JLP-M RSK MWD. Analyzed the data: AJG JLP-M. Wrote the paper: AJG JLP-M RSK.