About the Authors

Iovanna Pandelova

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Melania Figueroa

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Forage Seed and Cereal Research Unit, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Larry J. Wilhelm

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Viola A. Manning

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Aakash N. Mankaney

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Todd C. Mockler

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Lynda M. Ciuffetti

ciuffetL@science.oregonstate.edu

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology and 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: LMC IP. Performed the experiments: IP MF ANM VAM. Analyzed the data: LJW TCM IP MF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LMC TCM. Wrote the paper: IP MF VAM LMC.