About the Authors

Naimeh Taheri-Talesh

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Yi Xiong

Current address: Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Berl R. Oakley

boakley@ku.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NT-T YX BRO. Performed the experiments: NT-T YX BRO. Analyzed the data: NT-T YX BRO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NT-T YX. Wrote the paper: NT-T YX BRO.