About the Authors

Dario Cantu

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Manjula Govindarajulu

Affiliation Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Alex Kozik

Affiliation Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Meinan Wang

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Xianming Chen

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, Wheat Genetics, Quality, Physiology, and Disease Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service (USDA-ARS), Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Kenji K. Kojima

Affiliation Genetic Information Research Institute, Mountain View, California, United States of America

Jerzy Jurka

Affiliation Genetic Information Research Institute, Mountain View, California, United States of America

Richard W. Michelmore

Affiliations Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Jorge Dubcovsky

jdubcovsky@ucdavis.edu

Affiliations Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DC RWM JD. Performed the experiments: DC MG AK XC MW KKK JJ JD. Analyzed the data: DC MG AK KKK JJ RWM JD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW XC. Wrote the paper: DC KKK JJ RWM JD.