About the Authors

Allison J. Miller

amille75@slu.edu (AM); sean.myles@dal.ca (SM)

Affiliation Department of Biology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Naim Matasci

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and iPlant Collaborative, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Heidi Schwaninger

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Plant Genetic Resources Unit, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, New York, United States of America

Mallikarjuna K. Aradhya

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Clonal Germplasm Repository, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Bernard Prins

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Clonal Germplasm Repository, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Gan-Yuan Zhong

Affiliations United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Plant Genetic Resources Unit, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, New York, United States of America, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grape Genetic Research Unit, New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, New York, United States of America

Charles Simon

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Plant Genetic Resources Unit, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, New York, United States of America

Edward S. Buckler

Affiliation Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Sean Myles

amille75@slu.edu (AM); sean.myles@dal.ca (SM)

Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University, Truro, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GZ CS ESB MA SM. Performed the experiments: HS SM. Analyzed the data: NM AM SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GZ CS HS BP MA ESB. Wrote the paper: AM SM.