About the Authors

Cindy Vallières

Current address: School of Biology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Affiliation Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Nicholas Fisher

Affiliation Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Brigitte Meunier

meunier@cgm.cnrs-gif.fr

Affiliation Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NF BM. Performed the experiments: CV NF. Analyzed the data: CV NF BM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CV NF BM. Wrote the paper: NF BM.