About the Authors
- Xiaolan Zhang
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Affiliation Plant Biology Department, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Shahinez Madi
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Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America
- Lisa Borsuk
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Affiliation Center for Plant Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Dan Nettleton
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Affiliation Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Robert J Elshire
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Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- Brent Buckner
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Affiliation Division of Science, Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri, United States of America
- Diane Janick-Buckner
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Affiliation Division of Science, Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri, United States of America
- Jon Beck
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Affiliation Division of Mathematics and Computer Science, Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri, United States of America
- Marja Timmermans
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Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America
- Patrick S Schnable
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Affiliation Center for Plant Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Michael J Scanlon
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mjs298@cornell.edu
Affiliations Plant Biology Department, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America , Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
MT, PSS, and MJS conceived and designed the experiments and oversaw the analyses of data. LB performed bioinformatic analyses of genes contained on the SAM microarrays. XZ performed the LM-microarray experiments, and XZ and LB performed the analyses of raw microarray data. XZ and RJE performed the qRT-PCR experiments, and XZ and SM performed the in situ hybridization experiments. XZ performed the statistical analyses of the data under the direction of DN. BB and DJB directed the functional annotation of the data. BB, DJB, and JB created the GENEVA database to store the raw and annotated microarray data. XZ and MJS wrote the paper.