About the Authors

David Chagné

Affiliation Plant and Food Research, Palmerston North Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Ross N. Crowhurst

Affiliation Plant and Food Research, Mount Albert Research Centre, Auckland, New Zealand

Michela Troggio

Affiliation IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Foundation Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Mark W. Davey

Affiliation Laboratory for Fruit Breeding and Biotechnology, Department of Biosystems, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee, Leuven, Belgium

Barbara Gilmore

Affiliation USDA-ARS, National Clonal Germplasm Repository, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Cindy Lawley

Affiliation Illumina Inc., Hayward, California, United States of America

Stijn Vanderzande

Affiliation Laboratory for Fruit Breeding and Biotechnology, Department of Biosystems, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee, Leuven, Belgium

Roger P. Hellens

Affiliation Plant and Food Research, Mount Albert Research Centre, Auckland, New Zealand

Satish Kumar

Affiliation Plant and Food Research, Hawke's Bay Research Centre, Havelock North, New Zealand

Alessandro Cestaro

Affiliation IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Foundation Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Riccardo Velasco

Affiliation IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Foundation Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Dorrie Main

Affiliation Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Jasper D. Rees

Affiliation Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa

Amy Iezzoni

Affiliation Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Todd Mockler

Affiliation The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Larry Wilhelm

Affiliation Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Eric Van de Weg

Affiliation Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Susan E. Gardiner

Affiliation Plant and Food Research, Palmerston North Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Nahla Bassil

Affiliation USDA-ARS, National Clonal Germplasm Repository, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Cameron Peace

cpeace@wsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

DC, RPH, SK, and SEG received funding from PREVAR Ltd and The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited (Plant and Food Research). There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. DC, RNC, RPH, SK, and SEG belong to Plant and Food Research, a New Zealand government-owned crown-research institute. CL belongs to Illumina Inc. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DC MT MWD CL RPH RV DM JDR AI EVDW SEG NB CP. Performed the experiments: DC BG SV NB. Analyzed the data: DC RNC MT MWD CL SK AC TM LW EVDW CP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RPH RV JDR AI SEG NB. Wrote the paper: DC MT NB CP.