About the Authors

Devin L. O'Connor

devin.oconnor@slcu.cam.ac.uk

Current address: Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Affiliations Plant and Microbial Biology Department, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Plant Gene Expression Center, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Albany, California, United States of America

Adam Runions

For correspondence in regards to computer model: runionsa@cpsc.ucalgary.ca

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Aaron Sluis

Affiliations Plant and Microbial Biology Department, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Plant Gene Expression Center, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Albany, California, United States of America

Jennifer Bragg

Affiliation Western Regional Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture - Agriculture Research Service (USDA-ARS), Albany, California, United States of America

John P. Vogel

Affiliation Western Regional Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture - Agriculture Research Service (USDA-ARS), Albany, California, United States of America

Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz

Contributed equally to this work with: Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Sarah Hake

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Sarah Hake

Contributed equally to this work with: Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Sarah Hake

Affiliations Plant and Microbial Biology Department, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Plant Gene Expression Center, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Albany, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DLO AR PP SH. Performed the experiments: DLO AR AS JB. Analyzed the data: DLO AR PP SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JPV. Wrote the paper: DLO AR PP SH.