About the Authors

Simeon O. Kotchoni

skotchon@purdue.edu

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, Lilly Hall, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Jose C. Jimenez-Lopez

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology of Plants, Estacion Experimental del Zaidin (EEZ), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Granada, Spain

Emma W. Gachomo

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, Lilly Hall, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Manfredo J. Seufferheld

Affiliation Department of Crop Science, University of Illinois U-C, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SOK. Performed the experiments: JCJ-L EWG. Analyzed the data: JCJ-L EWG SOK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJS. Wrote the paper: SOK.