About the Authors

Rae Eden Yumul

Contributed equally to this work with: Rae Eden Yumul, Yun Ju Kim

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

Contributed equally to this work with: Rae Eden Yumul, 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

Xigang Liu

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

Ruozhong Wang

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Junhui Ding

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Langtao Xiao

Affiliation College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Xuemei Chen

xuemei.chen@ucr.edu

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 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: REY YJK LX XC. Performed the experiments: REY YJK XL RW JD. Analyzed the data: REY YJK XL RW LX XC. Wrote the paper: REY YJK XC.