About the Authors

Shiyu Chen

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Shawn M. Kaeppler

Affiliations Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Energy, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Kenneth P. Vogel

Affiliations USDA-ARS, Grain, Forage, and Bioenergy Research Unit, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Agronomy & Horticulture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Michael D. Casler

mdcasler@wisc.edu

Affiliations Department of Energy, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, USDA-ARS, U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SC MDC. Data curation: SC. Formal analysis: SC. Funding acquisition: MDC. Investigation: SC. Methodology: SC. Project administration: MDC. Resources: KPV. Software: SC. Supervision: MDC. Visualization: SC. Writing – original draft: SC. Writing – review & editing: SMK KPV MDC.