About the Authors

Boris Zybailov

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Heidi Rutschow

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Giulia Friso

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Andrea Rudella

Current address: Waters Co. EHQ Waters S.A.S., Guyancourt, France

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Olof Emanuelsson

Affiliation Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, AlbaNova, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Qi Sun

Affiliation Computation Biology Service Unit, Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Klaas J. van Wijk

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kv35@cornell.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Kv BZ. Performed the experiments: BZ HR GF AR. Analyzed the data: QS OE Kv BZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QS. Wrote the paper: OE Kv BZ.