About the Authors

Thomas Baldwin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Small Grains Germplasm Research Facility, USDA-ARS, Aberdeen, Idaho, United States of America

Emir Islamovic

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation BASF, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States of America

Kathy Klos

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation National Small Grains Germplasm Research Facility, USDA-ARS, Aberdeen, Idaho, United States of America

Paul Schwartz

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, United States of America

James Gillespie

Roles Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, United States of America

Samuel Hunter

Roles Software, Validation

Affiliation iBEST, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States of America

Phil Bregitzer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

phil.bregitzer@ars.usda.gov

Affiliation National Small Grains Germplasm Research Facility, USDA-ARS, Aberdeen, Idaho, United States of America

Competing Interests

At the time of the contribution of this research, EI was employed by the USDA-ARS. His current employer is BASF and it had no role in the study design; collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; writing of the paper; and/or decision to submit for publication. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.