About the Authors

Morgan K. Halane

Contributed equally to this work with: Morgan K. Halane, Sang Hee Kim

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea

Affiliations Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America

Sang Hee Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Morgan K. Halane, Sang Hee Kim

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America, Division of Applied Life Science (BK 21 Plus Program), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Republic of Korea, Division of Life Science, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Republic of Korea

Benjamin J. Spears

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America

Christopher M. Garner

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America

Conner J. Rogan

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States of America

Affiliations Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America

Elizabeth C. Okafor

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Affiliations Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America

Jianbin Su

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America

Saikat Bhattacharjee

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America, Regional Centre for Biotechnology, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad, India

Walter Gassmann

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gassmannw@missouri.edu

Affiliations Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.