About the Authors

Courtney Davis-Vogel

Contributed equally to this work with: Courtney Davis-Vogel, Amit Sethi, Mark E. Nelson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

courtney.vogel@pioneer.com

Affiliations Research and Development, DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, Iowa, United States of America, Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Brandon Van Allen

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Research and Development, DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, Iowa, United States of America

John L. Van Hemert

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, Iowa, United States of America

Amit Sethi

Contributed equally to this work with: Courtney Davis-Vogel, Amit Sethi, Mark E. Nelson

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, Iowa, United States of America

Mark E. Nelson

Contributed equally to this work with: Courtney Davis-Vogel, Amit Sethi, Mark E. Nelson

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development, DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, Iowa, United States of America

Dipali G. Sashital

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

Competing Interests: I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: CDV, BVA, JVH, AS, MEN were employed by DuPont Pioneer during the conduct of this research; CDV and AS are inventors on a patent application which includes the sequences described in this manuscript. This does not alter adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.