About the Authors

Margaret Staton

mstaton1@utk.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

Teodora Best

Affiliation The Schatz Center for Tree Molecular Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America

Sudhir Khodwekar

Affiliation School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States of America

Sandra Owusu

Affiliation School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States of America

Tao Xu

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States of America

Yi Xu

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States of America

Tara Jennings

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States of America

Richard Cronn

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States of America

A. Kathiravetpilla Arumuganathan

Affiliation Flow Cytometry and Imaging Core Lab, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Mark Coggeshall

Affiliation Department of Forestry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America

Oliver Gailing

Affiliation School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States of America

Haiying Liang

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States of America

Jeanne Romero-Severson

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States of America

Scott Schlarbaum

Affiliation Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

John E. Carlson

Affiliation The Schatz Center for Tree Molecular Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS TB RC AKA MC OG HL JR-S SS JEC. Performed the experiments: MS TB SK SO TX YX TJ RC AKA MC OG HL JR-S SS JEC. Analyzed the data: MS TB SK SO TX YX TJ RC AKA MC OG HL JR-S SS JEC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS TB SK SO TX YX TJ RC AKA MC OG HL JR-S SS JEC. Wrote the paper: MS TB MC OG HL JR-S SS JEC.