About the Authors

Nathaniel Grubbs

Contributed equally to this work with: Nathaniel Grubbs, Megan Leach

Affiliation Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Megan Leach

Contributed equally to this work with: Nathaniel Grubbs, Megan Leach

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Xin Su

Affiliation Transgenics Department, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America

Tiffany Petrisko

Affiliation Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Juan B. Rosario

Affiliation Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

James W. Mahaffey

jim_mahaffey@ncsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JWM XS NG ML JBR TP. Performed the experiments: JWM XS NG ML JBR TP. Analyzed the data: JWM NG ML JBR XS. Wrote the paper: JWM NG.