About the Authors

Meenal Vyas

Contributed equally to this work with: Meenal Vyas, Tonja W. Fisher

Affiliation School of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Tonja W. Fisher

Contributed equally to this work with: Meenal Vyas, Tonja W. Fisher

Affiliation School of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Ruifeng He

Affiliation Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

William Nelson

Affiliation BIO5, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Guohua Yin

Affiliation School of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Joseph M. Cicero

Affiliation School of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Mark Willer

Affiliation BIO5, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Ryan Kim

Affiliation National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Robin Kramer

Affiliation National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Greg A. May

Affiliation National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

John A. Crow

Affiliation National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Carol A. Soderlund

Affiliation BIO5, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

David R. Gang

Affiliation Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Judith K. Brown

jkbrown@email.arizona.edu

Affiliation School of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JKB DRG CAS. Performed the experiments: MV TWF GY. Analyzed the data: MV TWF GY RH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMC RKim RKramer WN. Wrote the paper: MV TWF JKB. Edited the manuscript: DRG JKB TWF MV. Prepared, sequenced, and assembled libraries: MW GAM JAC.