About the Authors

Todd P Michael

Contributed equally to this work with: Todd P Michael, Todd C Mockler, Ghislain Breton

Current address: Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Affiliation Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Todd C Mockler

Contributed equally to this work with: Todd P Michael, Todd C Mockler, Ghislain Breton

Affiliations Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America , Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America , Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Ghislain Breton

Contributed equally to this work with: Todd P Michael, Todd C Mockler, Ghislain Breton

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Connor McEntee

Affiliation Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Amanda Byer

Affiliation Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jonathan D Trout

Affiliation Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Samuel P Hazen

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Rongkun Shen

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Henry D Priest

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Christopher M Sullivan

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America , Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Scott A Givan

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America , Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Marcelo Yanovsky

Current address: Ifeva, Facultad de Agronomia, UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Fangxin Hong

Affiliations Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Steve A Kay

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Joanne Chory

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: chory@salk.edu

Affiliations Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

TPM conceived the experimental design, and together with TCM developed the network discovery pipeline. TCM wrote and implemented all bioinformatic tools. TPM, TCM, CM, JDT, HDP, RS, CMS, and SAG conceived, implemented, and developed Web tools and interfaces. TPM, AB, SPH, and MY collected tissue and performed microarray time courses. GB constructed element fusions and performed in vivo luciferase imaging. TCM and FH performed statistical analysis. SAK and JC provided reagents, and together with TPM, TCM, GB, and SPH wrote the paper.