About the Authors

Kangling Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Kangling Zhang, Vaniyambadi V. Sridhar

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kzhang@llu.edu (KZ); jian-kang.zhu@ucr.edu (JZ)

Affiliation Mass Spectrometry Facility, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, United States of America

Vaniyambadi V. Sridhar

Contributed equally to this work with: Kangling Zhang, Vaniyambadi V. Sridhar

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Jianhua Zhu

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Avnish Kapoor

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Jian-Kang Zhu

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kzhang@llu.edu (KZ); jian-kang.zhu@ucr.edu (JZ)

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California at 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: JZ. Performed the experiments: KZ VS JZ AK. Analyzed the data: JZ KZ VS AK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KZ. Wrote the paper: JZ KZ VS.