About the Authors

Tiffany Langewisch

Affiliation Plant Genetics Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Hongxin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Ryan Vincent

Affiliation Division of Computing, McKendree University, Lebanon, Illinois, United States of America

Trupti Joshi

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Informatics Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Dong Xu

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Informatics Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Kristin Bilyeu

Kristin.Bilyeu@ars.usda.gov

Affiliation Plant Genetics Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TL HZ RV TJ DX KB. Performed the experiments: TL HZ RV TJ. Analyzed the data: TL HZ KB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZ RV. Wrote the paper: TL HZ TJ KB.