About the Authors
- Harsh Raman
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* E-mail: harsh.raman@dpi.nsw.gov.au
Affiliation Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation (an alliance between NSW Department of Primary Industries and Charles Sturt University), Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
- Rosy Raman
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Affiliation Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation (an alliance between NSW Department of Primary Industries and Charles Sturt University), Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
- Andrzej Kilian
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Affiliation Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Ltd, University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT, Australia
- Frank Detering
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Affiliation Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Ltd, University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT, Australia
- Jason Carling
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Affiliation Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Ltd, University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT, Australia
- Neil Coombes
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Affiliation Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation (an alliance between NSW Department of Primary Industries and Charles Sturt University), Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
- Simon Diffey
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Affiliation University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
- Gururaj Kadkol
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Affiliation NSW Department of Primary Industries, Tamworth Agricultural Institute, Tamworth, NSW, Australia
- David Edwards
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Affiliations Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomic, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia, School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
- Margaret McCully
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Affiliation CSIRO Division of Plant Industries, Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Pradeep Ruperao
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Affiliations Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomic, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Isobel A. P. Parkin
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Affiliation Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, Canada
- Jacqueline Batley
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Affiliations School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
- David J. Luckett
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Affiliation Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation (an alliance between NSW Department of Primary Industries and Charles Sturt University), Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
- Neil Wratten
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Affiliation Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation (an alliance between NSW Department of Primary Industries and Charles Sturt University), Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
Competing Interests
DArT P/L (Canberra, Australia) is a genotyping company and may benefit from providing genotyping service to the Brassica R&D community. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HR RR. Analyzed the data: HR RR SD NC AK FD. Wrote the paper: HR RR. Reviewed and approved the manuscript: HR RR AK FD JC NC SD GK DE MM PR IAPP JB DL NW. Supervised the project: HR RR. Performed genotyping with SSR, DArT, SNP and DArT-SeqTM markers: RR HR AK. Phenotyped the populations for shatter resistance using pendulum test: RR GK HR. Conducted field experiments: RR HR DL. Provided C genome scaffold data: IAPP. Performed in silico mapping of sequenced markers with A and C genome scaffolds: HR AK FD JC. Performed in silico mapping of known pod shattering genes using reference A and C genomic sequences: DE PR JB. Aligned and integrated all genomic and physical map information for comparative mapping and LD: HR RR. Performed anatomical analysis: MM RR GB HR. Conducted alien gene introgression work: GK. Constructed a DH population from BLN2762/Surpass400: NW. Identified a set of diversity panel for GWAS: HR NW.