About the Authors

Kirsten Bomblies

Contributed equally to this work with: Kirsten Bomblies, Janne Lempe

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Janne Lempe

Contributed equally to this work with: Kirsten Bomblies, Janne Lempe

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Petra Epple

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Norman Warthmann

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Christa Lanz

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Jeffery L Dangl

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America , Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America , Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Detlef Weigel

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: weigel@weigelworld.org

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

KB, JL, PE, JLD, and DW conceived and designed the experiments. KB, JL, PE, NW, and CL performed the experiments. KB, JL, JLD, and DW analyzed the data and wrote the paper.