About the Authors

Gul Shad Ali

Affiliation Department of Biology and Program in Molecular Plant Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Saiprasad G. Palusa

Affiliation Department of Biology and Program in Molecular Plant Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Maxim Golovkin

Current address: Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA.

Affiliation Department of Biology and Program in Molecular Plant Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Jayendra Prasad

Current address: Department of Immunology, NE4-254, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

James L. Manley

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Anireddy S.N. Reddy

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: reddy@colostate.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology and Program in Molecular Plant Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AR GA. Performed the experiments: GA SP MG JP. Analyzed the data: JM AR GA SP. Wrote the paper: AR GA.