About the Authors

Matthew K. Gilbert

Affiliation Cotton Fiber Bioscience Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Hee Jin Kim

Affiliation Cotton Fiber Bioscience Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Yuhong Tang

Affiliation The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Genomics Core Facility, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America

Marina Naoumkina

Affiliation Cotton Fiber Bioscience Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

David D. Fang

david.fang@ars.usda.gov

Affiliation Cotton Fiber Bioscience Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare no conflict of interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DDF. Performed the experiments: MKG MN. Analyzed the data: MKG HJK YT MN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DDF. Wrote the paper: MKG DDF.