About the Authors

Jan G. A. M. L. Uitdewilligen

Affiliations Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, The Graduate School for Experimental Plant Sciences, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Anne-Marie A. Wolters

Affiliations Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, The Graduate School for Experimental Plant Sciences, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Bjorn B. D’hoop

Affiliation Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Theo J. A. Borm

Affiliations Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, The Graduate School for Experimental Plant Sciences, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Richard G. F. Visser

Affiliations Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, The Graduate School for Experimental Plant Sciences, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Centre for BioSystems Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Herman J. van Eck

Herman.vanEck@wur.nl

Affiliations Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, The Graduate School for Experimental Plant Sciences, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Centre for BioSystems Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JU AW BD HvE. Performed the experiments: JU. Analyzed the data: JU TB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TB. Wrote the paper: JU RV HvE.