About the Authors

Ning Dai

ning@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu (ND); spatters@wisc.edu (SEP)

Current address: Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Botany and Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Wuyi Wang

Current address: Ceres, Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Botany and Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Sara E. Patterson

ning@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu (ND); spatters@wisc.edu (SEP)

Affiliation Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Anthony B. Bleecker

† Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Botany and Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ND WW SEP ABB. Performed the experiments: ND WW SEP. Analyzed the data: ND WW SEP ABB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ND WW SEP ABB. Wrote the paper: ND WW SEP ABB.