About the Authors

Pamela M. Bachman

pamela.m.bachman@monsanto.com (PMB); aqeel.ahmad@monsanto.com (AA)

Affiliation Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Aqeel Ahmad

pamela.m.bachman@monsanto.com (PMB); aqeel.ahmad@monsanto.com (AA)

Affiliation Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jeffrey E. Ahrens

Affiliation Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Waseem Akbar

Affiliation Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

James A. Baum

Affiliation Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Scott Brown

Affiliation Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Thomas L. Clark

Affiliation Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Jennifer M. Fridley

Affiliation Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Anilkumar Gowda

Affiliation Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

John T. Greenplate

Affiliation Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States of America

Peter D. Jensen

Affiliation Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Geoffrey M. Mueller

Affiliation Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Matthew L. Odegaard

Affiliation Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jianguo Tan

Affiliation Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Joshua P. Uffman

Affiliation Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Steven L. Levine

Affiliation Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors are employed by Monsanto Company. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PB JA WA JB SB TC AG JG PJ JU SL. Formal analysis: WA JU. Investigation: WA JF AG GM JT. Writing – original draft: PB AA MO SL.