About the Authors

Rebekah E. Oliver

Contributed equally to this work with: Rebekah E. Oliver, Nicholas A. Tinker, Gerard R. Lazo, Eric W. Jackson

Affiliation General Mills Crop Biosciences, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

Nicholas A. Tinker

Contributed equally to this work with: Rebekah E. Oliver, Nicholas A. Tinker, Gerard R. Lazo, Eric W. Jackson

Nick.Tinker@agr.gc.ca

Affiliation Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Gerard R. Lazo

Contributed equally to this work with: Rebekah E. Oliver, Nicholas A. Tinker, Gerard R. Lazo, Eric W. Jackson

Affiliation Western Regional Research Center, Genomics and Gene Discovery, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Albany, California, United States of America

Shiaoman Chao

Affiliation Biosciences Research Lab, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America

Eric N. Jellen

Affiliation Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America

Martin L. Carson

Affiliation Cereal Disease Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Howard W. Rines

Affiliation Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Donald E. Obert

Affiliation Limagrain Cereal Seeds, Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Joseph D. Lutz

Affiliation General Mills Crop Biosciences, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

Irene Shackelford

Affiliation Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Aberdeen, Idaho, United States of America

Abraham B. Korol

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology and Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Charlene P. Wight

Affiliation Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Kyle M. Gardner

Affiliation Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jiro Hattori

Affiliation Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Aaron D. Beattie

Affiliation Crop Development Centre, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Åsmund Bjørnstad

Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

J. Michael Bonman

Affiliation Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Aberdeen, Idaho, United States of America

Jean-Luc Jannink

Affiliation Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Mark E. Sorrells

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Gina L. Brown-Guedira

Affiliation Eastern Regional Small Grains Genotyping Laboratory, North Carolina State University, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Jennifer W. Mitchell Fetch

Affiliation Cereal Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Stephen A. Harrison

Affiliation School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Catherine J. Howarth

Affiliation Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, United Kingdom

Amir Ibrahim

Affiliation Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Frederic L. Kolb

Affiliation Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Michael S. McMullen

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

J. Paul Murphy

Affiliation Department of Crop Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Herbert W. Ohm

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Brian G. Rossnagel

Affiliation Crop Development Centre, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Weikai Yan

Affiliation Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Kelci J. Miclaus

Affiliation JMP, SAS Institute Incorporated, Cary, North Carolina, United States of America

Jordan Hiller

Affiliation JMP, SAS Institute Incorporated, Cary, North Carolina, United States of America

Peter J. Maughan

Affiliation Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America

Rachel R. Redman Hulse

Affiliation Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America

Joseph M. Anderson

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Emir Islamovic

Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

Eric W. Jackson

Contributed equally to this work with: Rebekah E. Oliver, Nicholas A. Tinker, Gerard R. Lazo, Eric W. Jackson

Affiliation General Mills Crop Biosciences, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

Scientists REO and EWJ contributed to data collection, decision to publish, and preparation of the manuscript prior to employment at General Mills Inc., and these authors declare that the work presented was not in any way influenced by their current relationship with their employer. Staff scientist JDL from General Mills Inc. engaged in discussions leading to experimental design, and participated in manuscript preparation, but this was entirely limited to scientific input. Author DEO is currently employed at Limagrain Cereal Seeds, but contributed all work except for manuscript revision prior to this employment. The funding from General Mills and the contributions of employees from General Mills and Limagrain does not alter the authors‚ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EWJ REO NAT GRL SC ENJ MLC HWR DEO JDL ADB AB JLJ MES GLB SAH CJH MSM JPM BGR KJM J. Hiller PJM JMA. Performed the experiments: EWJ REO SC ENJ DEO IS GLB RRR. Analyzed the data: EWJ REO NAT GRL SC ENJ MLC HWR DEO ABK CPW KMG J. Hattori ADB AB JLJ GLB JWM SAH CJH AI FLK MSM JPM HWM BGR WY KJM J. Hiller PJM RRR EI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EWJ NAT GRL SC ENJ MLC HWR DEO ABK ADB AB JMB JLJ MES GLB JWM SAH CJH AI FLK MSM JPM HWM BGR WY KJM J. Hiller. Wrote the paper: EWJ REO NAT GRL SC ENJ MLC HWR DEO JDL IS ABK CPW KMG J. Hattori ADB AB JMB JLJ MES GLB JWM SAH CJH AI FLK MSM JPM HWM BGR WY KJM J. Hiller PJM RRR JMA EI.