About the Authors

Manuel Lopez-Vernaza

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Suxin Yang

Current address: College of Life Science, Shandong Normal University, Ji'nan, Shandong, China

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Ralf Müller

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Frazer Thorpe

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Erica de Leau

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Justin Goodrich

Justin.Goodrich@ed.ac.uk

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLV RM JG. Performed the experiments: MLV SY RM FT EDL JG. Analyzed the data: MLV RM JG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EDL SY. Wrote the paper: MLV RM JG.