About the Authors

Irina Makarevitch

imakarevitch01@hamline.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Addie Thompson

Affiliation Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Gary J. Muehlbauer

Affiliation Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Nathan M. Springer

Affiliations Microbial and Plant Genomics Institute, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NMS IM GJM. Performed the experiments: IM AT. Analyzed the data: IM NMS GJM AT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NMS GJM IM. Wrote the paper: IM NMS.