About the Authors

Eva K. F. Chan

Affiliations Department of Plant Sciences, University of California–Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Monsanto Company, Vegetable Seeds Division, Woodland, California, United States of America

Heather C. Rowe

Current address: Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California–Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Jason A. Corwin

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California–Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Bindu Joseph

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California–Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Daniel J. Kliebenstein

kliebenstein@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California–Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: EKFC HCR JAC BJ DJK. Performed the experiments: EKFC HCR JAC BJ. Analyzed the data: EKFC HCR JAC BJ DJK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EKFC HCR JAC. Wrote the paper: EKFC HCR JAC BJ DJK.