About the Authors

Jinyoung Y. Barnaby

Affiliation USDA-ARS, Crop Systems and Global Change Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

Moon Kim

Affiliation USDA-ARS, Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

Gary Bauchan

Affiliation USDA-ARS, Soybean Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

James Bunce

Affiliation USDA-ARS, Crop Systems and Global Change Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

Vangimalla Reddy

Affiliation USDA-ARS, Crop Systems and Global Change Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

Richard Charles Sicher

Richard.Sicher@ars.usda.gov

Affiliation USDA-ARS, Crop Systems and Global Change Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JYB RCS. Performed the experiments: JYB MSK. Analyzed the data: JYB RCS GB JB VR. Wrote the manuscript: JYB RCS. Approved manuscript for publication: JYB MSK GB JB VR RCS.