About the Authors

Muthukumar V. Bagavathiannan

muthu@tamu.edu

Affiliation Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Jason K. Norsworthy

Affiliation Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing interests. Cotton Incorporated funded parts of the research, but this does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MVB JKN. Performed the experiments: MVB. Analyzed the data: MVB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MVB. Wrote the paper: MVB JKN.