About the Authors

Inge E. Matthies

Contributed equally to this work with: Inge E. Matthies, Marcos Malosetti

matthies@ipk-gatersleben.de (IEM); marcos.malosetti@wur.nl (MM)

Affiliation Department of Gene and genome mapping, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

Marcos Malosetti

Contributed equally to this work with: Inge E. Matthies, Marcos Malosetti

matthies@ipk-gatersleben.de (IEM); marcos.malosetti@wur.nl (MM)

Affiliation Biometris, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, Gelderland, The Netherlands

Marion S. Röder

Affiliation Department of Gene and genome mapping, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

Fred van Eeuwijk

Affiliation Biometris, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, Gelderland, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interest: Triticarte Pty. Ltd (Canberra, Australia) provided the DArT analyses as a service to the authors. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IEM MM MSR FvE. Performed the experiments: IEM. Analyzed the data: IEM MM FvE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IEM MSR MM FvE. Wrote the paper: IEM MM MSR FvE.