About the Authors

Andrew S. Fister

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

Affiliation Pairwise Plants, Durham, NC, United States of America

Lena Landherr

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America

Melanie Perryman

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

Affiliation Department of Plant Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America

Yufan Zhang

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

Affiliation Essenlix Corporation, Monmouth Junction, New Jersey

Mark J. Guiltinan

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

Affiliations Department of Plant Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America

Siela N. Maximova

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

snm104@psu.edu

Affiliations Department of Plant Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: Andrew S. Fister is employed by Pairwise Plants and Yufan Zhang by Essenlix Corporation. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.