About the Authors

Fusheng Wei

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Joshua C. Stein

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Chengzhi Liang

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Jianwei Zhang

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Robert S. Fulton

Affiliation The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Regina S. Baucom

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Emanuele De Paoli

Affiliation Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Shiguo Zhou

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Lixing Yang

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Yujun Han

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Shiran Pasternak

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Apurva Narechania

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Lifang Zhang

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Cheng-Ting Yeh

Affiliation Department of Agronomy and Center for Plant Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Kai Ying

Affiliation Department of Agronomy and Center for Plant Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Dawn H. Nagel

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Kristi Collura

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

David Kudrna

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Jennifer Currie

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Jinke Lin

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

HyeRan Kim

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Angelina Angelova

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Gabriel Scara

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Marina Wissotski

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Wolfgang Golser

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Laura Courtney

Affiliation The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Scott Kruchowski

Affiliation The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Tina A. Graves

Affiliation The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Susan M. Rock

Affiliation The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Stephanie Adams

Affiliation The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Lucinda A. Fulton

Affiliation The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Catrina Fronick

Affiliation The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

William Courtney

Affiliation The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Melissa Kramer

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Lori Spiegel

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Lydia Nascimento

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Ananth Kalyanaraman

Affiliation School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Cristian Chaparro

Affiliation Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, CNRS UMR 5096, Perpignan, France

Jean-Marc Deragon

Affiliation Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, CNRS UMR 5096, Perpignan, France

Phillip San Miguel

Affiliation Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Ning Jiang

Affiliation Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Susan R. Wessler

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Pamela J. Green

Affiliation Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Yeisoo Yu

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

David C. Schwartz

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Blake C. Meyers

Affiliation Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Jeffrey L. Bennetzen

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Robert A. Martienssen

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

W. Richard McCombie

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Srinivas Aluru

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Sandra W. Clifton

Affiliation The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Patrick S. Schnable

Affiliation Department of Agronomy and Center for Plant Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Doreen Ware

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Richard K. Wilson

rwing@ag.arizona.edu (RAW); rwilson@wustl.edu (RKW)

Affiliation The Genome Center and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Rod A. Wing

rwing@ag.arizona.edu (RAW); rwilson@wustl.edu (RKW)

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FW JCS JZ RSF DCS BCM RAM WRM SWC PSS DW RKW RAW. Performed the experiments: FW JCS JZ RSF RSB EDP AN KC DK JC JL HK AA GS MW WG LC SK SMR SA LAF CF WC MK LS LN SA. Analyzed the data: FW JCS CL JZ RSF RSB SZ LY YH SP LZ CTY KY DHN TAG AK CC JMD PSM NJ SRW SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY. Wrote the paper: FW JCS RSF EDP PJG DCS BCM JLB SWC PSS DW RAW.