About the Authors

Peter L. De Hoff

Current address: Synthetic Genomics Inc., La Jolla, California, United States of America.

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

Patrick Ferris

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Bradley J. S. C. Olson

Affiliation Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Ayano Miyagi

Affiliation Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Sa Geng

Affiliation Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

James G. Umen

jumen@danforthcenter.org

Affiliation Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PLDH PF BJSCO JGU. Performed the experiments: PLDH PF BJSCO SG AM. Analyzed the data: AM PLDH PF BJSCO JGU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PLDH PF BJSCO JGU. Wrote the paper: PLDH PF JGU.