About the Authors

Anja Schmidt

aschmidt@botinst.uzh.ch (AS); grossnik@botinst.uzh.ch (UG)

Affiliation Institute of Plant Biology & Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Marc W. Schmid

Affiliation Institute of Plant Biology & Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Ulrich C. Klostermeier

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany

Weihong Qi

Affiliation Functional Genomics Center Zürich, UZH/ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Daniela Guthörl

Affiliation Institute of Plant Biology & Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Christian Sailer

Affiliation Institute of Plant Biology & Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Manuel Waller

Affiliation Institute of Plant Biology & Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Philip Rosenstiel

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany

Ueli Grossniklaus

aschmidt@botinst.uzh.ch (AS); grossnik@botinst.uzh.ch (UG)

Affiliation Institute of Plant Biology & Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS UG. Performed the experiments: AS UCK CS DG MW. Analyzed the data: AS MWS UG UCK CS DG MW WQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WQ MWS AS PR UG. Wrote the paper: AS. Performed bioinformatic analyses: AS MWS WQ. Helped writing the paper: UG MWS. Participated in the design of RNA-Seq experiments and their analysis: PR. Revised and approved the manuscript: AS UG UCK CS DG MW MWS WQ.