About the Authors

Xin'Ai Zhao

Affiliation Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Phenotypic Plasticity, Institut de Biologie Mole´culaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Hirofumi Harashima

Affiliations Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Phenotypic Plasticity, Institut de Biologie Mole´culaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, Trinationales Institut für Pflanzenforschung, Strasbourg, France

Nico Dissmeyer

Current address: Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB), Halle (Saale), Germany

Affiliation Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Phenotypic Plasticity, Institut de Biologie Mole´culaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Stefan Pusch

Current address: Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Affiliation Unigruppe am Max-Planck-Institut für Pflanzenzü chtungsforschung, Lehrstuhl für Botanik III, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

Annika K. Weimer

Affiliation Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Phenotypic Plasticity, Institut de Biologie Mole´culaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Jonathan Bramsiepe

Affiliation Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Phenotypic Plasticity, Institut de Biologie Mole´culaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Daniel Bouyer

Affiliation Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Phenotypic Plasticity, Institut de Biologie Mole´culaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Svenja Rademacher

Current address: Lehrstuhl für Pflanzenzü chtung, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Affiliation Cell Biology and Plant Biochemistry, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Moritz K. Nowack

Affiliations Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Gent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Bela Novak

Affiliation Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Stefanie Sprunck

Affiliation Cell Biology and Plant Biochemistry, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Arp Schnittger

arp.schnittger@ibmp-cnrs.unistra.fr

Affiliations Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Phenotypic Plasticity, Institut de Biologie Mole´culaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, Trinationales Institut für Pflanzenforschung, Strasbourg, France, Unigruppe am Max-Planck-Institut für Pflanzenzü chtungsforschung, Lehrstuhl für Botanik III, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: X'AZ HH ND BN AS. Performed the experiments: X'AZ HH ND SP AKW DB SR MKN JB BN. Analyzed the data: X'AZ HH ND SP AKW DB SR MKN JB BN SS AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS. Wrote the paper: X'AZ AS.