About the Authors

Andrea Gottlieb

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Gottlieb, Hans-Georg Müller, Katrien M. Devos, Jan Dvorak

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Hans-Georg Müller

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Gottlieb, Hans-Georg Müller, Katrien M. Devos, Jan Dvorak

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Alicia N. Massa

Current address: Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Affiliation Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics (Department of Crop and Soil Sciences), Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Humphrey Wanjugi

Current address: Monsanto Company, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Affiliation USDA/ARS Western Research Center, Albany, California, United States of America

Karin R. Deal

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Frank M. You

Current address: Cereal Research Center, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Xiangyang Xu

Current address: Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Affiliation Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics (Department of Crop and Soil Sciences), Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Yong Q. Gu

Affiliation USDA/ARS Western Research Center, Albany, California, United States of America

Ming-Cheng Luo

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Olin D. Anderson

Affiliation USDA/ARS Western Research Center, Albany, California, United States of America

Agnes P. Chan

Affiliation The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Pablo Rabinowicz

Current address: DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Katrien M. Devos

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Gottlieb, Hans-Georg Müller, Katrien M. Devos, Jan Dvorak

Affiliation Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics (Department of Crop and Soil Sciences), Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Jan Dvorak

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Gottlieb, Hans-Georg Müller, Katrien M. Devos, Jan Dvorak

jdvorak@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG HGM KMD JD. Performed the experiments: ANM HW KRD XX YQG MCL ODA APC PR KMD JD. Analyzed the data: AG HGM KMD FMY JD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KRD MCL. Wrote the paper: AG HGM KMD JD.