About the Authors

Rajesh Kumar

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kumarr@missouri.edu (RK); nguyenhenry@missouri.edu (HN)

Affiliation Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Jing Qiu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Trupti Joshi

Affiliation Computer Science Department and Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Babu Valliyodan

Affiliation Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Dong Xu

Affiliation Computer Science Department and Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Henry T. Nguyen

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kumarr@missouri.edu (RK); nguyenhenry@missouri.edu (HN)

Affiliation Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RK HN. Performed the experiments: RK. Analyzed the data: RK JQ TJ. Wrote the paper: RK HN. Other: Conducted computational analyses: TJ DX. Conducted statistical analyses and provided critical comments on paper: JQ. Provided technical help in microarray work: BV.