Jinliang Yang:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0999-3518
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: SoftwareRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original
draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Sofiane Mezmouk: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – original
draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Andy Baumgarten:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5766-2732
Role: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Edward S. Buckler:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3100-371X
Role: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Katherine E. Guill: Role: Resources
Michael D. McMullen: Role: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Rita H. Mumm:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9339-2290
Role: Data curationRole: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole:
ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review
& editing
Justin C. Fay: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS Genet
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS Genet
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosgen
Title:
PLoS Genetics
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Print):
1553-7390
ISSN
(Electronic):
1553-7404
Publication date Collection:
September
2017
Publication date
(Electronic):
27
September
2017
Volume: 13
Issue: 9
Electronic Location Identifier: e1007019
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, California,
United States of America
[2
]
DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, Iowa, United States of America
[3
]
School of Integrative Plant Sciences, Section of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
[4
]
Institute for Genomic Diversity, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
[5
]
US Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service, Ithaca, New York, United
States of America
[6
]
US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Columbia, Missouri, United
States of America
[7
]
Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States
of America
[8
]
Department of Crop Sciences and the Illinois Plant Breeding Center, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
[9
]
Center for Population Biology and Genome Center, University of California, Davis,
California, United States of America
University of Rochester, UNITED STATES
Author notes
I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following
competing interests: Rita Mumm received research funding from Kellogg Company to support
field work, equipment, and travel. She is a paid consultant for Mars Inc. and serves
on the leadership team of the African Orphan Crop Consortium which is funded in part
by Mars Inc. Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra received research funding from DuPont Pioneer and
Mars Inc. Sofiane Mezmouk is a current employee of KWS. Andy Baumgarten is a current
employee of DuPont Pioneer. All authors declare no additional competing interests,
and none of the funders played any role in the study design; collection, analysis,
and interpretation of data; writing of the paper; and/or decision to submit for publication.
[¤a]
Current address: Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
[¤b]
Current address: KWS SAAT SE, Einbeck, Germany
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PGENETICS-D-16-02825
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007019
PMC ID: 5633198
PubMed ID: 28953891
SO-VID: e2b55a91-8720-4ebd-8f9a-ad29cfb3c74c
Copyright © © 2017 Yang et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
Financial support for this work came from NSF (grants IOS-0820619 and IOS-1238014),
USDA (grant 2009-65300-05668 and Hatch projects CA-D-PLS-2066-H and ILLU-802-354),
DuPont Pioneer, Kellogg Company, and Mars Incorporated. The funders had no role in
study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of
the manuscript.
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