About the Authors

Swarup Roy Choudhury

Affiliation Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Naveen C. Bisht

Current address: National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India

Affiliation Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Rheannon Thompson

Current address: University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii, United States of America

Affiliation Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Oleg Todorov

Affiliation Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Sona Pandey

spandey@danforthcenter

Affiliation Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC NB SP. Performed the experiments: SC NB RT OT SP. Analyzed the data: SC NB SP. Wrote the paper: SP.