About the Authors

Kengo Morohashi

Affiliations Department of Plant, Cellular, and Molecular Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Plant Biotechnology Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Erich Grotewold

grotewold.1@osu.edu

Affiliations Department of Plant, Cellular, and Molecular Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Plant Biotechnology Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Mathematical Bioscience Institute, 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: KM EG. Performed the experiments: KM. Analyzed the data: KM. Wrote the paper: KM EG.