About the Authors

Qing-Jun Luo

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Manoj P. Samanta

Affiliation Systemix Institute, Los Altos, California, United States of America

Fatih Köksal

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Jaroslav Janda

Affiliation BIO5 Institute and Department of Plant Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

David W. Galbraith

Affiliation BIO5 Institute and Department of Plant Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Casey R. Richardson

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Fangqian Ou-Yang

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Christopher D. Rock

chris.rock@ttu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QJL MPS CDR. Performed the experiments: QJL JJ CRR FOY CDR. Analyzed the data: QJL MPS FK JJ CDR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MPS FK DWG CRR CDR. Wrote the paper: QJL MPS DWG CDR.