About the Authors

John M. Chaston

Contributed equally to this work with: John M. Chaston, Garret Suen

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Garret Suen

Contributed equally to this work with: John M. Chaston, Garret Suen

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Sarah L. Tucker

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

Aaron W. Andersen

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Archna Bhasin

Affiliation Department of Biology, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, United States of America

Edna Bode

Affiliation Institut für Molekulare Biowissenschaften, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Helge B. Bode

Affiliation Institut für Molekulare Biowissenschaften, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Alexander O. Brachmann

Affiliation Institut für Molekulare Biowissenschaften, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Charles E. Cowles

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Kimberly N. Cowles

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Creg Darby

Affiliation Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Limaris de Léon

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Kevin Drace

Affiliation Department of Biology, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, United States of America

Zijin Du

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

Alain Givaudan

Affiliations Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique-Université de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Erin E. Herbert Tran

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Kelsea A. Jewell

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Jennifer J. Knack

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Karina C. Krasomil-Osterfeld

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

Ryan Kukor

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Anne Lanois

Affiliations Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique-Université de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Phil Latreille

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

Nancy K. Leimgruber

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

Carolyn M. Lipke

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Renyi Liu

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Xiaojun Lu

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Eric C. Martens

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Pradeep R. Marri

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Claudine Médigue

Affiliation Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Génomique, Genoscope and CNRS-UMR 8030, Laboratoire d'Analyse Bioinformatique en Génomique et Métabolisme, Evry, France

Megan L. Menard

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Nancy M. Miller

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

Nydia Morales-Soto

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Stacie Norton

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

Jean-Claude Ogier

Affiliations Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique-Université de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Samantha S. Orchard

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Dongjin Park

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Youngjin Park

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Barbara A. Qurollo

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

Darby Renneckar Sugar

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Gregory R. Richards

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Zoé Rouy

Affiliation Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Génomique, Genoscope and CNRS-UMR 8030, Laboratoire d'Analyse Bioinformatique en Génomique et Métabolisme, Evry, France

Brad Slominski

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Kathryn Slominski

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Holly Snyder

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Brian C. Tjaden

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ransome van der Hoeven

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Roy D. Welch

Affiliation Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Cathy Wheeler

Affiliation Department of Biology, Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, United States of America

Bosong Xiang

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

Brad Barbazuk

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Sophie Gaudriault

Affiliations Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique-Université de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Brad Goodner

Affiliation Department of Biology, Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, United States of America

Steven C. Slater

Affiliation DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Steven Forst

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Barry S. Goldman

barry.s.goldman@monsanto.com (B.Goldman); hgblair@bact.wisc.edu (HG-B)

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

Heidi Goodrich-Blair

barry.s.goldman@monsanto.com (B.Goldman); hgblair@bact.wisc.edu (HG-B)

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

Monsanto Company provided support for this study through the donation of resources for genome sequencing and team-member time. ST, ZD, KK-O, PL, NM, SN, BX and B.Goldman are employed by Monsanto Company. NL and BQ were employed by Monsanto at the time of this study. There are no products in development or marketed products to declare associated with this study. However, a patent has been filed for the X. bovienii strain in this manuscript (patent #7629444; filed 6/10/2005 and issued 12/8/2009; Inventors: Barry S. Goldman, Karina Krasomil-Osterfeld; Wei Wu; Assignee Monsanto Technology LLC) that Monsanto Company is not prosecuting. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BB SG B.Goodner SS SF B.Goldman HG-B. Performed the experiments: EB HB A.Brachmann KC EM NM-S DP YP GR BX B.Goodner NKL NMM. Analyzed the data: JC GS AA A.Bhasin EB HB A.Brachmann CC KC CD LdL KD ZD AG EHT KJ JK KK-O RK AL PL CL RL XL EM PM CM MM NMM NM-S SN J-CO SO DP YP BQ DS GR ZR BS KS HS BT RvdH RW CW BB SG B.Goodner SS SF B.Goldman HG-B. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SF B.Goldman HG-B. Wrote the paper: JC GS ST SS B.Goldman HG-B.