About the Authors

Marc W. Schmid

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

Anja Schmidt

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

Ulrich C. Klostermeier

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

Matthias Barann

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

Philip Rosenstiel

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

Ueli Grossniklaus

grossnik@botinst.uzh.ch

Affiliation Institute of Plant Biology and 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: MWS AS UG. Performed the experiments: MWS UCK. Analyzed the data: MWS MB. Wrote the paper: MWS. Helped draft the manuscript: AS UG. Participated in design of analysis: PR. Revised and approved the manuscript: MWS AS UCK MB PR UG.