About the Authors

Naoki Takahashi

Affiliations Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium, Plant Functional Genomics Research Group, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Mauricio Quimbaya

Affiliations Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium, Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, Molecular and Cellular Oncology Unit, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent, Belgium, Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Veit Schubert

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany

Tim Lammens

Affiliations Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Klaas Vandepoele

Affiliations Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Ingo Schubert

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany

Minami Matsui

Affiliation Plant Functional Genomics Research Group, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Dirk Inzé

Affiliations Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Geert Berx

Affiliations Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, Molecular and Cellular Oncology Unit, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent, Belgium, Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Lieven De Veylder

lieven.deveylder@psb.vib-ugent.be

Affiliations Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NT VS IS MM DI GB LDV. Performed the experiments: NT MQ VS TL. Analyzed the data: NT MQ VS TL KV IS MM GB LDV. Wrote the paper: NT LDV.