About the Authors
- William L. Holdsworth
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Affiliations Section of Plant Breeding and Genetics, School of Integrative Plant Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America, Rupp Seeds, Inc., Wauseon, OH, United States of America
- Kyle E. LaPlant
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Affiliation Section of Plant Breeding and Genetics, School of Integrative Plant Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America
- Duane C. Bell
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Affiliation Rupp Seeds, Inc., Wauseon, OH, United States of America
- Molly M. Jahn
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Affiliation Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America
- Michael Mazourek
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* E-mail: mm284@cornell.edu
Affiliation Section of Plant Breeding and Genetics, School of Integrative Plant Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America
Competing Interests
WLH is, and DB was, employed by Rupp Seeds, a company that develops and distributes powdery mildew-resistant squash and pumpkin cultivars. This does not alter our adherence to PLoS One polices on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: WLH KEL DCB MM. Formal analysis: WLH KEL. Funding acquisition: MM. Investigation: WLH KEL DCB. Methodology: MM WLH. Project administration: MM WLH DCB. Resources: WLH KEL DCB MMJ MM. Supervision: MM. Validation: MM WLH KEL. Visualization: WLH KEL MM. Writing – original draft: WLH KEL. Writing – review & editing: WLH KEL DCB MMJ MM.