About the Authors

Justin W Walley

Affiliation Section of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Sean Coughlan

¤ Current address: DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware, United State of America

Affiliation Agilent Technologies, Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America

Matthew E Hudson

Affiliation Department of Crop Sciences, University Of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Michael F Covington

Affiliation Section of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Roy Kaspi

Affiliation Section of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Gopalan Banu

Affiliation Genomic Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Stacey L Harmer

Affiliation Section of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Katayoon Dehesh

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kdehesh@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Section of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

JWW and KD conceived and designed the experiments and wrote the paper. JWW, SC, and RK performed the experiments. JWW, SC, MEH, MFC, and GB analyzed the data. SC, MEH, MFC, SLH, and KD contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools.