About the Authors
- John E. Bowers
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Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Savithri Nambeesan
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Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Jonathan Corbi
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Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Michael S. Barker
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Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
- Loren H. Rieseberg
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Affiliations Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
- Steven J. Knapp
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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
- John M. Burke
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* E-mail: jmburke@uga.edu
Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Competing Interests
This study was supported in part by funding from commercial sources (Syngenta and Biogemma). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SJK JEB LHR MSB JMB. Performed the experiments: JEB SN JC. Analyzed the data: JEB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMB. Wrote the paper: JEB JMB.