About the Authors

O. Rahul Patharkar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rpatharkar@gmail.com (ORP); WalkerJ@missouri.edu (JCW)

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America

Walter Gassmann

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Plant Sciences, CS Bond Life Sciences Center and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America

John C. Walker

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

rpatharkar@gmail.com (ORP); WalkerJ@missouri.edu (JCW)

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.