About the Authors

Devinder Sandhu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

devinder.sandhu@ars.usda.gov (DS); mbhattac@iastate.edu (MKB)

Affiliation USDA-ARS, US Salinity Laboratory, Riverside, CA, United States of America

Jayadri Ghosh

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

Callie Johnson

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI, United States of America

Jordan Baumbach

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

Eric Baumert

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI, United States of America

Tyler Cina

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI, United States of America

David Grant

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America, USDA-ARS Corn Insects and Crop Genomics Research Unit, Ames, IA, United States of America

Reid G. Palmer

† Deceased.

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliations Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America, USDA-ARS Corn Insects and Crop Genomics Research Unit, Ames, IA, United States of America

Madan K. Bhattacharyya

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

devinder.sandhu@ars.usda.gov (DS); mbhattac@iastate.edu (MKB)

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.