About the Authors

Cintia Hotta Orsi

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Steven D. Tanksley

sdt4@cornell.edu

Affiliations Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, 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: CHO SDT. Performed the experiments: CHO. Analyzed the data: CHO SDT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CHO SDT. Wrote the paper: CHO SDT.