About the Authors

Kelly Houston

Kelly.Houston@hutton.ac.uk

Affiliation The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, DD2 5DA, Scotland, United Kingdom

Rachel A. Burton

Affiliation ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, The University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia

Beata Sznajder

Affiliation Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, The University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia

Antoni J. Rafalski

Affiliation Genetic Discovery Group, DuPont Agricultural Biotechnology, DuPont Pioneer, DuPont Experimental Station, Building E353, Wilmington, DE, 19803, United States of America

Kanwarpal S. Dhugga

Current address: Genetic Resources Program, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, El Batan, Texcoco, Mexico

Affiliation Genetic Discovery Group, DuPont Agricultural Biotechnology, DuPont Pioneer, 7300 NW 62nd Avenue, Johnston, IA, 50131, United States of America

Diane E. Mather

Affiliation Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, The University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia

Jillian Taylor

Affiliation ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, The University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia

Brian J. Steffenson

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, United States of America

Robbie Waugh

Affiliations The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, DD2 5DA, Scotland, United Kingdom, Division of Plant Sciences, University of Dundee at The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Scotland, Dundee, DD2 5DA, United Kingdom

Geoffrey B. Fincher

Affiliation ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, The University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia

Competing Interests

During the period in which the research was undertaken, JAR and KSD were affiliated with the DuPont Agricultural Biotechnology division at the commercial company DuPont Pioneer, which also funded parts of the project. No patents on any of the work described in the paper have been lodged and there are no known products being developed as a result of the work presented. JAR and KSD are no longer affiliated with the company mentioned above. Therefore, this does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GBF AR KSD DEM RAB B. Sznajder B. Steffenson. Performed the experiments: JT. Analyzed the data: KH B. Sznajder. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: B. Sznajder. Wrote the paper: KH GBF AR KSD DEM RAB B. Sznajder JT B. Steffenson RW.