About the Authors
- Kwang-Hwan Kim
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Affiliation Department of Horticultural Bioscience, Pusan National University, Miryang, Republic of Korea
- Ji-Hyun Hwang
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Affiliation Department of Horticultural Bioscience, Pusan National University, Miryang, Republic of Korea
- Dong-Yeup Han
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Affiliation Department of Horticultural Bioscience, Pusan National University, Miryang, Republic of Korea
- Minkyu Park
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Affiliations Department of Plant Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Seungill Kim
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Affiliation Department of Plant Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Doil Choi
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Affiliation Department of Plant Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Yongjae Kim
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Affiliation Partner Seed, Ansung, Republic of Korea
- Gung Pyo Lee
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Affiliation Department of Integrative Plant Science, College of Biotechnology and Natural Resources, Chung-Ang University, Ansung, Republic of Korea
- Sun-Tae Kim
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Affiliation Department of Plant Bioscience, Pusan National University, Miryang, Republic of Korea
- Young-Hoon Park
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* E-mail: ypark@pusan.ac.kr
Affiliations Department of Horticultural Bioscience, Pusan National University, Miryang, Republic of Korea, Life and Industry Convergence Research Institute, Pusan National University, Miryang, Republic Korea
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. A commercial affiliation, "Partner Seed" (affiliated author: Yongjae Kim) did not provide financial support, but played a role in the study design and data collection by field evaluation of the F2 population. Phenotyping of the F2 population was conducted by Yongjae Kim (the owner of "Partner seed") at the breeding field owned by Partner Seed Company which collaborated for this study. Partner Seed agreed to disclose any information described in this manuscript under no condition. Therefore, this does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KHK DC YK GPL STK YP. Performed the experiments: KHK JHH DYH MP SK YK YP. Analyzed the data: KHK DYH MP SK YP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KHK MP SK DC YK YP. Wrote the paper: KHK DYH MP SK YP.