About the Authors

Maarten G. Verlaan

Contributed equally to this work with: Maarten G. Verlaan, Samuel F. Hutton

Affiliations Wageningen UR Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Centre for BioSystems Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Samuel F. Hutton

Contributed equally to this work with: Maarten G. Verlaan, Samuel F. Hutton

Affiliation Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Wimauma, Florida, United States of America

Ragy M. Ibrahem

Affiliation Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Wimauma, Florida, United States of America

Richard Kormelink

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Richard G. F. Visser

Affiliations Wageningen UR Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Centre for BioSystems Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands

John W. Scott

Affiliation Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Wimauma, Florida, United States of America

Jeremy D. Edwards

Affiliation Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Wimauma, Florida, United States of America

Yuling Bai

bai.yuling@wur.nl

Affiliations Wageningen UR Plant Breeding, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Centre for BioSystems Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MGV SFH RK JWS JDE YB. Performed the experiments: MGV SFH RMI. Analyzed the data: MGV SFH RK JWS YB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MGV SFH RK JWS RGFV YB. Wrote the paper: MGV SFH RK RGFV JWS YB.