About the Authors
- Roberto de la Rosa Santamaria
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Contributed equally to this work with: Roberto de la Rosa Santamaria, Mon-Ray Shao
Affiliations Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
- Mon-Ray Shao
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Contributed equally to this work with: Roberto de la Rosa Santamaria, Mon-Ray Shao
Affiliations Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
- Guomei Wang
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Affiliation Monsanto, Chesterfield Village Research Center, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America
- David O. Nino-Liu
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Affiliation Monsanto, Chesterfield Village Research Center, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America
- Hardik Kundariya
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Affiliation Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
- Yashitola Wamboldt
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Affiliation Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
- Ismail Dweikat
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Affiliation Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
- Sally A. Mackenzie
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* E-mail: smackenzie2@unl.edu
Affiliations Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
Competing Interests
The manipulation of MSH1 for use in plant breeding has been submitted for U.S. patent (Mackenzie, S. and De La Rosa Santamaria, R., Plants with Useful Traits and Related Methods, Pending Appl. No. 61/481,519). Two authors in this study (GW and DON) were employed by the company Monsanto. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RDLRS ID SAM. Performed the experiments: RDLRS MRS GW DONL HK YW. Analyzed the data: RDLRS MRS GW DONL HK YW. Wrote the paper: SAM.