About the Authors

Ana Rus

Affiliation Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Ivan Baxter

Affiliation Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Balasubramaniam Muthukumar

Affiliation Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Jeff Gustin

Affiliation Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Brett Lahner

Affiliation Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Elena Yakubova

Affiliation Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

David E Salt

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dsalt@purdue.edu

Affiliation Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

AR, IB, and DES conceived and designed the experiments. AR, IB, BM, JG, BL, and EY performed the experiments. AR, IB, BM, JG, BL, and DES analyzed the data. AR and DES wrote the paper.