About the Authors

Dongying Gao

Affiliation Center for Applied Genetic Technologies and Institute for Plant Breeding Genetics and Genomics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Jinfeng Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Mingsheng Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Blake C. Meyers

Affiliation Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, and Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Scott Jackson

sjackson@uga.edu

Affiliation Center for Applied Genetic Technologies and Institute for Plant Breeding Genetics and Genomics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJ DG MC JC BM. Performed the experiments: SJ DG MC JC BM. Analyzed the data: DG BM SJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJ DG MC JC BM. Wrote the paper: SJ DG MC JC BM.