About the Authors

Erin D. Scully

Affiliation Intercollege Graduate Program in Genetics, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Scott M. Geib

Affiliation Tropical Crop and Commodity Protection Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture Agriculture Research Service Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, Hilo, Hawaii, United States of America

Kelli Hoover

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Center for Chemical Ecology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ming Tien

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Susannah G. Tringe

Affiliation Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Kerrie W. Barry

Affiliation Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Tijana Glavina del Rio

Affiliation Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Mansi Chovatia

Affiliation Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Joshua R. Herr

Affiliations Intercollege Graduate Program in Plant Biology, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, The Schatz Center for Tree Molecular Genetics, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

John E. Carlson

jec16@psu.edu

Affiliations The Schatz Center for Tree Molecular Genetics, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Bioenergy Science and Technology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EDS KH MT SGT JEC. Performed the experiments: EDS SMG SGT TGdR MC KWB. Analyzed the data: EDS SMG JRH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EDS SMG KH JEC. Wrote the manuscript: EDS SMG KH MT JEC.