About the Authors

Jinghua Shi

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Sarah E. Wolf

Affiliations Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

John M. Burke

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Gernot G. Presting

Affiliation Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

R. Kelly Dawe

kelly@plantbio.uga.edu

Affiliations Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: JS RKD. Performed the experiments: JS SEW. Analyzed the data: JS JMB JRI RKD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GGP RKD. Wrote the paper: JS JMB JRI RKD.