About the Authors

Fusheng Wei

Contributed equally to this work with: Fusheng Wei, Jianwei Zhang

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, Departments of Plant Sciences and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Jianwei Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Fusheng Wei, Jianwei Zhang

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, Departments of Plant Sciences and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Shiguo Zhou

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Ruifeng He

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, Departments of Plant Sciences and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Mary Schaeffer

Affiliation Plant Genetics Research Unit, USDA-ARS, and Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Kristi Collura

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, Departments of Plant Sciences and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

David Kudrna

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, Departments of Plant Sciences and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Ben P. Faga

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Marina Wissotski

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, Departments of Plant Sciences and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Wolfgang Golser

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, Departments of Plant Sciences and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Susan M. Rock

Affiliation The Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Tina A. Graves

Affiliation The Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Robert S. Fulton

Affiliation The Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Ed Coe

Affiliation Plant Genetics Research Unit, USDA-ARS, and Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Patrick S. Schnable

Affiliation Center for Plant Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

David C. Schwartz

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Doreen Ware

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Sandra W. Clifton

Affiliation The Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Richard K. Wilson

Affiliations The Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Rod A. Wing

rwing@ag.arizona.edu

Affiliation Arizona Genomics Institute, Departments of Plant Sciences and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FW JZ RSF PSS DCS SWC RKW RAW. Performed the experiments: FW JZ RH KC DK MW WG SMR TAG. Analyzed the data: FW JZ SZ MS EC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SZ MS BPF EC DCS DW. Wrote the paper: FW JZ RAW.