About the Authors

Henrik U. Stotz

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

h.stotz@herts.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom

Pascoe J. Harvey

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnolgy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Affiliation School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom

Parham Haddadi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Saskatoon Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Alla Mashanova

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliation School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom

Andreas Kukol

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom

Nicholas J. Larkan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Armatus Genetics Inc., Saskatoon, SK, Canada

M. Hossein Borhan

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Saskatoon Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Bruce D. L. Fitt

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

NJL is currently employed by Armatus Genetics Inc. This commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. However, in accordance with the PLOS Data policy, it is declared that B. napus genome sequence data from a third party (Dr. Isobel Parkin) were used in this study.