About the Authors

Jeffrey A. Kimbrel

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeffrey A. Kimbrel, William J. Thomas

Current address: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America; Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

William J. Thomas

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeffrey A. Kimbrel, William J. Thomas

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Yuan Jiang

Affiliations Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Allison L. Creason

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Caitlin A. Thireault

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

Joel L. Sachs

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Jeff H. Chang

changj@science.oregonstate.edu

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAK WJT YJ JLS JHC. Performed the experiments: JAK WJT YJ ALC CAT JHC. Analyzed the data: JAK WJT YJ JLS JHC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAK WJT YJ JHC. Wrote the paper: JAK WJT YJ JLS JHC.