About the Authors
- Eleni Bachlava
-
Current address: Monsanto Company, Woodland, California, United States of America
Affiliation Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Christopher A. Taylor
-
Current address: Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America
Affiliation Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Shunxue Tang
-
Current address: Dow AgroSciences LLC, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Affiliation Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- John E. Bowers
-
Affiliations Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Jennifer R. Mandel
-
Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- John M. Burke
-
* E-mail: jmburke@uga.edu
Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Steven J. Knapp
-
Current address: Monsanto Company, Woodland, California, United States of America
Affiliation Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Competing Interests
This study was funded by Advanta Semillas, Dow Agrosciences, Pioneer Hi-Bred and Syngenta. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: EB ST JMB SJK. Performed the experiments: EB CAT ST. Analyzed the data: EB CAT JEB JRM JMB. Wrote the paper: EB JEB JRM JMB SJK.