About the Authors

Charles Chen

cc859@cornell.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Genevieve DeClerck

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Feng Tian

Affiliation National Maize Improvement Center, China Agriculture University, Beijing, China

William Spooner

Affiliation Eagle Genomics Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Susan McCouch

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Edward Buckler

Affiliations Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service (USDA-ARS), Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

William Spooner is an employee of Eagle Genomics Ltd. 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: CC SM EB. Performed the experiments: CC FT. Analyzed the data: CC FT WS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC GD. Wrote the paper: CC SM EB.