About the Authors

Stephen A. Snipes

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology (CEPCEB), Institute of Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB), University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Kevin Rodriguez

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology (CEPCEB), Institute of Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB), University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Aaron E. DeVries

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: USGS Great Lakes Science Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology (CEPCEB), Institute of Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB), University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Kaori N. Miyawaki

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Shanghai, P. R. China

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology (CEPCEB), Institute of Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB), University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Mariano Perales

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Centro de Biotecnologia y Genomica de Plantas (CBGP), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)–Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Campus Montegancedo UPM, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology (CEPCEB), Institute of Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB), University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Mingtang Xie

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Salk Institute of Biological studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology (CEPCEB), Institute of Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB), University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

G. Venugopala Reddy

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

venug@ucr.edu

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology (CEPCEB), Institute of Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB), University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.