About the Authors

Lijuan Ji

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Xigang Liu

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Jun Yan

Affiliation Gene Suppression Laboratory, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and KTRDC, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Wenming Wang

Affiliation Rice Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China

Rae Eden Yumul

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America, ChemGen IGERT program, Center for Plant Cell Biology, Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Yun Ju Kim

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Thanh Theresa Dinh

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America, ChemGen IGERT program, Center for Plant Cell Biology, Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Jun Liu

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Xia Cui

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Binglian Zheng

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Manu Agarwal

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Chunyan Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiaofeng Cao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Guiliang Tang

Affiliation Gene Suppression Laboratory, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and KTRDC, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Xuemei Chen

xuemei.chen@ucr.edu

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: X Chen, L Ji, X Liu, W Wang, RE Yumul, X Cui, X Cao, G Tang. Performed the experiments: X Chen, L Ji, X Liu, J Yan, W Wang, RE Yumul, YJ Kim, TT Dinh, J Liu, X Cui, B Zheng, M Agarwal, C Liu. Analyzed the data: X Chen, L Ji, X Liu, W Wang, RE Yumul, YJ Kim, TT Dinh, J Liu, B Zheng, M Agarwal, C Liu. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: J Yan, G Tang. Wrote the paper: X Chen, L Ji, RE Yumul.