About the Authors

Jianbing Yan

Affiliations Genetic Resources Program, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico City, Mexico, Department of Bioinformatics, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Hyderabad, India

Trushar Shah

Affiliation National Maize Improvement Center of China, China Agriculture University, Beijing, China

Marilyn L. Warburton

marilyn.warburton@ars.usda.gov

Affiliation Corn Host Plant Resistance Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Starkville, Mississippi, United States of America

Edward S. Buckler

Affiliations Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Plant, Soil and Nutrition Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Michael D. McMullen

Affiliations Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Plant Genetics Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Jonathan Crouch

Affiliation Genetic Resources Program, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico City, Mexico

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JY MW EB. Performed the experiments: JY TS. Analyzed the data: JY TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW EB MDM JC. Wrote the paper: JY TS MW JC.