About the Authors

Pei-Yu Jian

Affiliation Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Feng Sheng Hu

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Chiao Ping Wang

Affiliation Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan

Jyh-min Chiang

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

Teng-Chiu Lin

tclin@ntnu.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TCL FSH PYJ. Performed the experiments: CPW JMC PYJ. Analyzed the data: TCL JYC PYJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CPW JYC. Wrote the paper: TCL FSH PYJ.