About the Authors

Dagmar Lyska

dalyska@lbl.gov

Current address: Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Affiliation Entwicklungs- und Molekularbiologie der Pflanzen, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet, Duesseldorf, Germany

Kerstin Engelmann

Affiliation Entwicklungs- und Molekularbiologie der Pflanzen, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet, Duesseldorf, Germany

Karin Meierhoff

Affiliation Entwicklungs- und Molekularbiologie der Pflanzen, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet, Duesseldorf, Germany

Peter Westhoff

Affiliation Entwicklungs- und Molekularbiologie der Pflanzen, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet, Duesseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DL KE KM PW. Performed the experiments: DL KE. Analyzed the data: DL. Wrote the paper: DL.