About the Authors

Ling-Ling Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Ling-Ling Chen, Wan-Chia Chung

Affiliation Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Wan-Chia Chung

Contributed equally to this work with: Ling-Ling Chen, Wan-Chia Chung

Affiliation Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Chan-Pin Lin

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chih-Horng Kuo

chk@gate.sinica.edu.tw

Affiliation Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CHK. Performed the experiments: LLC WCC CHK. Analyzed the data: LLC WCC CPL CHK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CHK. Wrote the paper: CHK.