About the Authors

Fatima Naim

Affiliations Plant Industry, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Kenlee Nakasugi

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Ross N. Crowhurst

Affiliation Breeding and Genomics, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Mt Albert, Auckland, New Zealand

Elena Hilario

Affiliation Breeding and Genomics, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Mt Albert, Auckland, New Zealand

Alexander B. Zwart

Affiliation Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Roger P. Hellens

Affiliation Breeding and Genomics, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Mt Albert, Auckland, New Zealand

Jennifer M. Taylor

Affiliation Plant Industry, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Peter M. Waterhouse

Affiliations Plant Industry, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, School of Molecular Bioscience, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Craig C. Wood

Craig.Wood@csiro.au

Affiliation Plant Industry, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FN KL RNC EH RPH JMT PMW CW. Performed the experiments: FN EH. Analyzed the data: FN KN RNC ABZ PMW CCW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EH RNC. Wrote the paper: FN EH RPH PMW CCW.