About the Authors

Janet A. Higgins

janet.higgins@bbsrc.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom

Paul C. Bailey

Affiliation Department of Computational and Systems Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom

David A. Laurie

Affiliation Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAH PCB DAL. Performed the experiments: JAH PCB DAL. Analyzed the data: JAH PCB DAL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAH PCB DAL. Wrote the paper: JAH PCB DAL.