About the Authors

Hernan Garcia-Ruiz

Current address: Department of Plant Pathology and Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Affiliations Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Alberto Carbonell

Affiliations Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

J. Steen Hoyer

Affiliations Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Computational and Systems Biology Program, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Noah Fahlgren

Affiliations Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Kerrigan B. Gilbert

Affiliation Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Atsushi Takeda

Current address: Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Noji-Higashi, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan

Affiliation Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Annalisa Giampetruzzi

Current address: Instituto per la Protezione Sostenible de la Piante del CNR, Bari, Italy

Affiliation Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Mayra T. Garcia Ruiz

Current address: Recursos Genéticos y Productividad, Fisiología Vegetal, Colegio de Postgraduados, Montecillo, México

Affiliation Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Michaela G. McGinn

Current address: Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Nicholas Lowery

Current address: Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Affiliation Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Maria T. Martinez Baladejo

Affiliation Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

James C. Carrington

jcarrington@danforthcenter.org

Affiliations Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exits.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HGR JCC. Performed the experiments: HGR JSH AT AG MTGR MGM NL MTMB. Analyzed the data: HGR NF AC JSH JCC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HGR AT AC NF JSH KBG JCC. Wrote the paper: HGR AC NF JSH JCC.