About the Authors

Renata Bolognesi

Affiliation Biotechnology Division, Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Parthasarathy Ramaseshadri

pprama1@monsanto.com

Affiliation Biotechnology Division, Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Jerry Anderson

Affiliation Biotechnology Division, Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Pamela Bachman

Affiliation Regulatory Division, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

William Clinton

Affiliation Biotechnology Division, Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Ronald Flannagan

Affiliation Biotechnology Division, Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Oliver Ilagan

Affiliation Biotechnology Division, Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Christina Lawrence

Affiliation Regulatory Division, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Steven Levine

Affiliation Regulatory Division, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

William Moar

Affiliation Regulatory Division, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Geoffrey Mueller

Affiliation Regulatory Division, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jianguo Tan

Affiliation Regulatory Division, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Joshua Uffman

Affiliation Regulatory Division, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Elizabeth Wiggins

Affiliation Biotechnology Division, Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Gregory Heck

Affiliation Biotechnology Division, Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Gerrit Segers

Affiliation Biotechnology Division, Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors are affiliated to Monsanto Company, USA. 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: RB GS PR SL GH CL. Performed the experiments: JA PB EW. Analyzed the data: RB PR PB RF CL WM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WC OI GM JT JU. Wrote the paper: RB.