About the Authors

Elizabeth Stephenson

Contributed equally to this work with: Elizabeth Stephenson, Stacey Estrada

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation CORTEVA Agrisciences, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont; Johnston, Iowa, United States of America

Stacey Estrada

Contributed equally to this work with: Elizabeth Stephenson, Stacey Estrada

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Current address: USDA, ARS, Plant Introduction Research Unit, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Affiliation CORTEVA Agrisciences, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont; Johnston, Iowa, United States of America

Xin Meng

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Current address: Syngenta Crop, Slater, Iowa, United States of America

Affiliation CORTEVA Agrisciences, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont; Johnston, Iowa, United States of America

Jesse Ourada

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation CORTEVA Agrisciences, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont; Johnston, Iowa, United States of America

Michael G. Muszynski

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Hawaii at Manoa, Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii; United States of America

Jeffrey E. Habben

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CORTEVA Agrisciences, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont; Johnston, Iowa, United States of America

Olga N. Danilevskaya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

o.danilevskaya@gmail.com

Affiliation CORTEVA Agrisciences, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont; Johnston, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

Elizabeth Stephenson, Stacey Estrada, Xin Meng, Jesse Ourada, Michael G. Muszynski, Jeffrey E. Habben, Olga N. Danilevskaya are or were employed by DuPont Pioneer. Materials reported in this paper may be subject to third party ownership and/or to governmental regulations. Availability of materials reported in this paper to academic investigators for non-commercial research purposes under an applicable material transfer agreement will be subject to the requisite permission from any third-party owners of all or parts of the materials and to governmental regulation considerations. Obtaining the applicable permission from such third-party owners will be the responsibility of the requestor. Transgenic materials reported in this paper would only be made available if in full accordance with all applicable governmental regulations. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data, and sharing materials (subject to the above), as detailed online in the guide for authors.