About the Authors

Nacer Bellaloui

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

nacer.bellaloui@usda.gov

Affiliation USDA, Agriculture Research Service, Crop Genetics Research Unit, Stoneville, California, United States of America

Jiazheng Yuan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plant Genomics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Biological and Forensic Sciences, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States of America

Dounya Knizia

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

Affiliations Department of Plant, Soil, and Agricultural Systems, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America, Laboratoire de Biotechnologies & Valorisation des Bio-Ressources (BioVar), Department de Biology, Faculté des Sciences, Université Moulay Ismail, Meknès, Morocco

Qijian Song

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Soybean Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

Frances Betts

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plant Genomics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Biological and Forensic Sciences, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States of America

Teresa Register

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plant Genomics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Biological and Forensic Sciences, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States of America

Earl Williams

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plant Genomics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Biological and Forensic Sciences, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States of America

Naoufal Lakhssassi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant, Soil, and Agricultural Systems, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America

Hamid Mazouz

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratoire de Biotechnologies & Valorisation des Bio-Ressources (BioVar), Department de Biology, Faculté des Sciences, Université Moulay Ismail, Meknès, Morocco

Henry T. Nguyen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Plant Science and Technology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Khalid Meksem

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

Affiliation Department of Plant, Soil, and Agricultural Systems, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America

Alemu Mengistu

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Crop Genetics Research Unit, Jackson, Tennessee, United States of America

My Abdelmajid Kassem

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

Affiliation Plant Genomics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Biological and Forensic Sciences, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.