About the Authors

Sivakumar Swaminathan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

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

Anindya Das

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Teshale Assefa

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

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

Joshua M. Knight

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

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

Amilton Ferreira Da Silva

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Department of Agricultural Science, Federal University of Sao Joao del-Rei, Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais State, Brazil

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

João P. S. Carvalho

Roles Formal analysis

Current address: Department of Biology, Federal University of Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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

Glen L. Hartman

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USDA and Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Xiaoqiu Huang

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Leonor F. Leandro

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Silvia R. Cianzio

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

mbhattac@iastate.edu (MKB); scianzio@iastate.edu (SRC)

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

Madan K. Bhattacharyya

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

mbhattac@iastate.edu (MKB); scianzio@iastate.edu (SRC)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.