About the Authors

Daniel H. Chitwood

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel H. Chitwood, Lauren R. Headland

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Lauren R. Headland

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel H. Chitwood, Lauren R. Headland

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Daniele L. Filiault

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Ravi Kumar

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

José M. Jiménez-Gómez

Current address: Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Köln, Germany

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Amanda V. Schrager

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Daniel S. Park

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Jie Peng

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Neelima R. Sinha

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Julin N. Maloof

jnmaloof@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DHC LRH DLF JMJ JP NRS JNM. Performed the experiments: DHC LRH DLF RK JMJ AVS DSP. Analyzed the data: DHC DLF JP JNM. Wrote the paper: DHC LRH NRS JNM.