About the Authors

Steven L. Levine

steven.l.levine@monsanto.com (SLL); jianguo.tan@monsanto.com (JT)

Affiliation Regulatory Sciences, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jianguo Tan

steven.l.levine@monsanto.com (SLL); jianguo.tan@monsanto.com (JT)

Affiliation Regulatory Sciences, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Geoffrey M. Mueller

Affiliation Regulatory Sciences, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Pamela M. Bachman

Affiliation Regulatory Sciences, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Peter D. Jensen

Affiliation Regulatory Sciences, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Joshua P. Uffman

Affiliation Regulatory Sciences, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors are employees of Monsanto Company. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SLL JT. Performed the experiments: JT GMM JPU. Analyzed the data: SLL JT GMM PBM PDJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SLL JT GMM PBM PDJ JPU. Wrote the paper: SLL JT PMB PDJ.