About the Authors

Yupeng Wang

Affiliations Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Xiyin Wang

Affiliations Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, College of Life Sciences, Hebei United University, Tangshan, Hebei, China

Haibao Tang

Affiliations Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Xu Tan

Affiliations Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Stephen P. Ficklin

Affiliation Plant and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

F. Alex Feltus

Affiliations Plant and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America, Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

Andrew H. Paterson

paterson@plantbio.uga.edu

Affiliations Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW XW AHP. Performed the experiments: YW SPF. Analyzed the data: YW XW FAF AHP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HT XT. Wrote the paper: YW XW AHP.