Sandra A. Owusu,¹ Margaret Staton,² Tara N. Jennings,³ Scott Schlarbaum,⁴ Mark V. Coggeshall,⁵ Jeanne Romero-Severson,⁶ John E. Carlson,⁷ Oliver Gailing<sup>1,*

1</sup>2School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, 1400 Towns
²3Clemson University Genomics Institute, Clemson, South Carolina 29634 USA
³4Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, Oregon 97331 USA
⁴5Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
⁵6School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211 USA
⁶7Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 USA
⁷8Department of Ecosystem Science and Management and Department of Plant Science, Pennsylvania State

^* Author for correspondence: ogailing@mtu.edu