About the Authors

Jörg Hagmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Jörg Hagmann, Claude Becker

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Claude Becker

Contributed equally to this work with: Jörg Hagmann, Claude Becker

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Jonas Müller

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Oliver Stegle

Affiliations Machine Learning and Computational Biology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Rhonda C. Meyer

Affiliation The Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany

George Wang

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Korbinian Schneeberger

Affiliation Department of Plant Developmental Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

Joffrey Fitz

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Thomas Altmann

Affiliation The Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany

Joy Bergelson

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Karsten Borgwardt

Current address: Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH, Basel, Switzerland

Affiliations Machine Learning and Computational Biology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany, Center for Bioinformatics (ZBIT), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Detlef Weigel

weigel@weigelworld.org

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB JH TA JB DW. Performed the experiments: CB RCM. Analyzed the data: JH CB JM OS GW KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JB JF. Wrote the paper: CB JH DW. Provided advice on statistical analysis: KB.

These authors contributed equally to the work.