About the Authors

Nathan M. Springer

Contributed equally to this work with: Nathan M. Springer, Kai Ying

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Kai Ying

Contributed equally to this work with: Nathan M. Springer, Kai Ying

Affiliations Interdepartmental Genetics Graduate Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Yan Fu

Affiliations Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Center for Carbon Capturing Crops, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Tieming Ji

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Cheng-Ting Yeh

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

Yi Jia

Affiliation Interdepartment Plant Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Wei Wu

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

Todd Richmond

Affiliation Roche NimbleGen, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Jacob Kitzman

Affiliation Roche NimbleGen, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Heidi Rosenbaum

Affiliation Roche NimbleGen, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

A. Leonardo Iniguez

Affiliation Roche NimbleGen, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

W. Brad Barbazuk

Affiliation University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Jeffrey A. Jeddeloh

Affiliation Roche NimbleGen, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Dan Nettleton

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Patrick S. Schnable

schnable@iastate.edu

Affiliations Interdepartmental Genetics Graduate Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Center for Carbon Capturing Crops, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Center for Plant Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Interdepartment Plant Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

Todd Richmond, Jacob Kitzman, Heidi Rosenbaum, A. Leonardo Iniguez, and Jeffrey A. Jeddeloh are employees of Roche NimbleGen.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NMS JAJ PSS. Performed the experiments: KY YF YJ WW HR ALI. Analyzed the data: NMS KY YF TJ CTY YJ WW WBB JAJ DN PSS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TR JK WBB JAJ. Wrote the paper: NMS PSS.