About the Authors

Jean-Marc Lacape

marc.lacape@cirad.fr

Affiliation CIRAD, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France

Michel Claverie

Affiliation CIRAD, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France

Ramon O. Vidal

Affiliation University of CampinasLaboratory of Genomics and Expression, Campinas, SP, Brazil

Marcelo F. Carazzolle

Affiliation University of CampinasLaboratory of Genomics and Expression, Campinas, SP, Brazil

Gonçalo A. Guimarães Pereira

Affiliation University of CampinasLaboratory of Genomics and Expression, Campinas, SP, Brazil

Manuel Ruiz

Affiliation CIRAD, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France

Martial Pré

Affiliation CIRAD, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France

Danny Llewellyn

Affiliation CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Yves Al-Ghazi

Affiliation CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, ACT, Australia

John Jacobs

Affiliation Bayer BioScience N.V., Ghent, Belgium

Alexis Dereeper

Affiliation IRD, UMR RPB, Montpellier, France

Stéphanie Huguet

Affiliation URGV, UMR INRA 1165, Evry, France

Marc Giband

Affiliations CIRAD, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France, EMBRAPA Algodão, Núcleo Cerrado da Embrapa Algodão, Santo Antônio de Goiás, GO, Brazil

Claire Lanaud

Affiliation CIRAD, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France

Competing Interests

One of the co-authors is affiliated to a company (Bayer BioScience NV). There are no declarations relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products etc. 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: DL JJ MG CL JML. Performed the experiments: MC MP YAG. Analyzed the data: SH ROV MFC GAG MR AD. Wrote the paper: JML. Participated in glasshouse activities and plant material collection: MC JML.