About the Authors

Claire Billot

Contributed equally to this work with: Claire Billot, Punna Ramu

claire.billot@cirad.fr

Affiliation Cirad, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France

Punna Ramu

Contributed equally to this work with: Claire Billot, Punna Ramu

Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Sophie Bouchet

Current address: UMR de Génétique Végétale, INRA – Université Paris-Sud – CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Affiliation Cirad, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France

Jacques Chantereau

Affiliation Cirad, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France

Monique Deu

Affiliation Cirad, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France

Laetitia Gardes

Current address: Cirad, UMR CMAEE, Montpellier, France

Affiliation Cirad, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France

Jean-Louis Noyer

Affiliation Cirad, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France

Jean-François Rami

Affiliation Cirad, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France

Ronan Rivallan

Affiliation Cirad, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France

Yu Li

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, China

Ping Lu

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, China

Tianyu Wang

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, China

Rolf T. Folkertsma

Current address: Plant Health Lead EMEA/India, Monsanto Holland B.V., Bergschenhoek, The Netherlands

Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Elizabeth Arnaud

Affiliation Bioversity International, Montpellier, France

Hari D. Upadhyaya

Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Jean-Christophe Glaszmann

Affiliation Cirad, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France

C. Thomas Hash

Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Competing Interests

Part of our work was carried out by using the resources of Cornell University's Computational Biology Service Unit. It was partially funded by Microsoft Corporation. This does however not alter the authors' adherence to all of the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB PR JFR JCG HU YL CTH. Performed the experiments: CB RR JFR PR LG TW PL. Analyzed the data: CB PR JFR JLN MD JCG CTH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CB PR RR LG SB JFR HU EA YL JC RF. Wrote the paper: CB PR MD JCG JLN CTH.