About the Authors

Sergei A. Filichkin

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Ghislain Breton

Current address: University of Texas Health Sciences Center-Houston (UTHSC), Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Henry D. Priest

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Palitha Dharmawardhana

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Pankaj Jaiswal

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Samuel E. Fox

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Todd P. Michael

Current address: The Genome Analysis Group, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Affiliation The Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Joanne Chory

Affiliation Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Steve A. Kay

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Todd C. Mockler

tmockler@cgrb.oregonstate.edu

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAF TCM TPM GB SAK JC. Performed the experiments: SAF TCM TPM SEF. Analyzed the data: SAF HDP PD TPM GB TCM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HDP PD PJ SEF. Wrote the paper: SAF GB TCM.