About the Authors

Noah Fahlgren

Affiliations Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Stephanie R. Bollmann

Affiliation Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Kristin D. Kasschau

Affiliation Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Josh T. Cuperus

Current address: Department of Genome Sciences and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Caroline M. Press

Affiliation Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Christopher M. Sullivan

Affiliation Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Elisabeth J. Chapman

Current address: Forage Genetics, International, West Salem, Wisconsin, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

J. Steen Hoyer

Affiliation Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Kerrigan B. Gilbert

Affiliation Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Niklaus J. Grünwald

nik.grunwald@ars.usda.gov (NJG); JCarrington@danforthcenter.org (JCC)

Affiliation Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

James C. Carrington

nik.grunwald@ars.usda.gov (NJG); JCarrington@danforthcenter.org (JCC)

Affiliations Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, 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: JCC NJG NF KDK SRB. Performed the experiments: KDK NF SRB CMP EJC. Analyzed the data: NF CMS KDK JTC SRB KBG JSH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NJG JCC CMP. Wrote the paper: NF JTC KDK SRB JSH NJG JCC.