About the Authors

Vijay K. Tiwari

Affiliation Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Oscar Riera-Lizarazu

Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India

Hilary L. Gunn

Affiliation Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

KaSandra Lopez

Affiliation Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

M. Javed Iqbal

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America

Shahryar F. Kianian

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America

Jeffrey M. Leonard

jeff.leonard@oregonstate.edu

Affiliation Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VKT ORL SFK JML. Performed the experiments: VKT HLG KL JML. Analyzed the data: VKT ORL HLG JML. Wrote the paper: VKT MJI SFK JML.