About the Authors

Seonghee Lee

Affiliations Rice Research Extension Center, University of Arkansas, Stuttgart, Arkansas, United States of America, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America

Yulin Jia

yulin.jia@usda.ars.gov

Affiliation Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Stuttgart, Arkansas, United States of America

Melissa Jia

Affiliation Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Stuttgart, Arkansas, United States of America

David R. Gealy

Affiliation Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Stuttgart, Arkansas, United States of America

Kenneth M. Olsen

Affiliation Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Ana L. Caicedo

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL YJ KMO ALC. Performed the experiments: SL MJ DRG YJ KMO ALC. Analyzed the data: SL MJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL MJ DRG YJ KMO ALC. Wrote the paper: SL MJ DRG YJ KMO ALC.