About the Authors

U. Uzay Sezen

Affiliation Plant Genome Mapping Lab., Athens, GA, United States of America

Jacob N. Barney

Affiliation Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Daniel Z. Atwater

Affiliation Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Gary A. Pederson

Affiliation USDA-ARS, PGRCU, Griffin, GA, United States of America

Jeffrey F. Pederson

Affiliation USDA-ARS and University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States of America

J. Mike Chandler

Affiliation Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

T. Stan Cox

Affiliation The Land Institute, Salina, KS, United States of America

Sheila Cox

Affiliation The Land Institute, Salina, KS, United States of America

Peter Dotray

Affiliation Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States of America

David Kopec

Affiliation University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America

Steven E. Smith

Affiliation University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America

Jill Schroeder

Affiliation New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States of America

Steven D. Wright

Affiliation University of California Davis, Davis CA, United States of America

Yuannian Jiao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, China Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Wenqian Kong

Affiliation Plant Genome Mapping Lab., Athens, GA, United States of America

Valorie Goff

Affiliation Plant Genome Mapping Lab., Athens, GA, United States of America

Susan Auckland

Affiliation Plant Genome Mapping Lab., Athens, GA, United States of America

Lisa K. Rainville

Affiliation Plant Genome Mapping Lab., Athens, GA, United States of America

Gary J. Pierce

Affiliation Plant Genome Mapping Lab., Athens, GA, United States of America

Cornelia Lemke

Affiliation Plant Genome Mapping Lab., Athens, GA, United States of America

Rosana Compton

Affiliation Plant Genome Mapping Lab., Athens, GA, United States of America

Christine Phillips

Affiliation Plant Genome Mapping Lab., Athens, GA, United States of America

Alexandra Kerr

Affiliation Plant Genome Mapping Lab., Athens, GA, United States of America

Matthew Mettler

Affiliation Plant Genome Mapping Lab., Athens, GA, United States of America

Andrew H. Paterson

paterson@uga.edu (706) 5830162

Affiliation Plant Genome Mapping Lab., Athens, GA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AHP JNB. Data curation: UUS AHP. Formal analysis: UUS DZA YJ. Funding acquisition: AHP JNB. Investigation: UUS AHP. Methodology: AHP JNB. Project administration: AHP. Resources: GAP JFP JMC TSC SC PD DK SS JS SDW WK VG SA LKR GJP CL RC CP AK MM AHP JNB. Supervision: AHP JNB. Validation: UUS. Visualization: UUS. Writing – original draft: UUS. Writing – review & editing: UUS JNB DZA AHP.