About the Authors

Sara E. Heisel

Contributed equally to this work with: Sara E. Heisel, Yuanji Zhang, Edwards Allen, Liang Guo

Affiliation Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Yuanji Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Sara E. Heisel, Yuanji Zhang, Edwards Allen, Liang Guo

Affiliation Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Edwards Allen

Contributed equally to this work with: Sara E. Heisel, Yuanji Zhang, Edwards Allen, Liang Guo

ed.m.allen@monsanto.com

Affiliation Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Liang Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Sara E. Heisel, Yuanji Zhang, Edwards Allen, Liang Guo

Affiliation Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Tracey L. Reynolds

Affiliation Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Xiao Yang

Affiliation Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

David Kovalic

Affiliation Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

James K. Roberts

Affiliation Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SEH YZ EA LG TLR DK JKR. Performed the experiments: SEH YZ EA LG XY. Analyzed the data: SEH YZ EA LG XY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TLR. Wrote the paper: SEH EA.