About the Authors

Carolyn J. Lawrence-Dill

triffid@iastate.edu

Affiliations Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Robyn L. Allscheid

Affiliation Research, National Corn Growers Association, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Albert Boaitey

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, Wisconsin, United States of America

Todd Bauman

Affiliation Filament, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Edward S. Buckler IV

Affiliation Plant Soil and Nutrition Research Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Jennifer L. Clarke

Affiliations Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Christopher Cullis

Affiliation Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Jack Dekkers

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Cassandra J. Dorius

Affiliation Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Shawn F. Dorius

Affiliation Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

David Ertl

Affiliation Research and Business Development, Iowa Corn Promotion Board, Johnston, Iowa, United States of America

Matthew Homann

Affiliation Filament, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Guiping Hu

Affiliation Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Mary Losch

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States of America

Eric Lyons

Affiliation School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Brenda Murdoch

Affiliation Department of Animal, Veterinary and Food Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

Zahra-Katy Navabi

Affiliation Research and Development, Nuseed Canada, Laverton, Canada

Somashekhar Punnuri

Affiliation Agricultural Research Station, Fort Valley State University, Fort Falley, Georgia, United States of America

Fahad Rafiq

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

James M. Reecy

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Patrick S. Schnable

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Nicole M. Scott

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Moira Sheehan

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Xavier Sirault

Affiliation Agriculture and Food, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia

Margaret Staton

Affiliation Institute of Agriculture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Christopher K. Tuggle

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Alison Van Eenennaam

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Rachael Voas

Affiliation Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.