About the Authors

Tae-Jin Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Tae-Jin Lee, Pete E. Pascuzzi

Affiliation Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Pete E. Pascuzzi

Contributed equally to this work with: Tae-Jin Lee, Pete E. Pascuzzi

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Sharon B. Settlage

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Randall W. Shultz

Current address: Gene Expression Technology, Monsanto Company, Middleton, Wisconsin, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Milos Tanurdzic

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Pablo D. Rabinowicz

Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Margit Menges

Affiliation School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Ping Zheng

Affiliation Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Dorrie Main

Affiliation Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

James A. H. Murray

Affiliation School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Bryon Sosinski

Affiliation Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

George C. Allen

Affiliation Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Robert A. Martienssen

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Linda Hanley-Bowdoin

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Matthew W. Vaughn

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

William F. Thompson

wftb@ncsu.edu

Affiliation Departments of Plant Biology, Genetics, and Crop Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TJL PEP SBS RWS MT PDR MM DM JAHM BS GCA RAM LHB MWV WFT. Performed the experiments: TJL PEP SBS. Analyzed the data: TJL PEP PZ DM MWV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT PDR. Wrote the paper: TJL PEP LHB MWV WFT.