About the Authors

Jeffrey C. Glaubitz

jcg233@cornell.edu

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

Terry M. Casstevens

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

Fei Lu

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

James Harriman

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

Robert J. Elshire

Current address: AgResearch Limited, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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

Qi Sun

Affiliation Biotechnology Resource Center Bioinformatics Facility, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Edward S. Buckler

Affiliations Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ESB JCG QS. Performed the experiments: ESB JCG TMC FL JH QS RJE. Analyzed the data: JCG ESB TMC QS RJE. Wrote the paper: JCG ESB.