About the Authors

Roisin C. McGarry

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America

Brian G. Ayre

bgayre@unt.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

This work was supported by Cotton Incorporated (Cooperative Agreement 10-768 to BGA), a not-for-profit producers organization. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors declare there are no other relevant declarations relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products etc.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RCM BGA. Performed the experiments: RCM. Analyzed the data: RCM BGA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RCM BGA. Wrote the paper: RCM BGA.