About the Authors
- Erin L. Doyle
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Current address: Department of Biology, Doane College, Crete, Nebraska, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Aaron W. Hummel
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Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Zachary L. Demorest
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Affiliations Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Development and Center for Genome Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Cellectis Plant Sciences, New Brighton, Minnesota, United States of America
- Colby G. Starker
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Development and Center for Genome Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
- Daniel F. Voytas
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Development and Center for Genome Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
- Philip Bradley
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Affiliation Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Adam J. Bogdanove
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* E-mail: ajb7@cornell.edu
Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
Competing Interests
DFV and AJB are co-inventors on three patents related to DNA modification with TAL effector nucleases (United States Patents 8450471, 8440432, and 8440431, “TAL effector-mediated DNA modification”). ELD is a co-inventor on a pending patent related to the same invention (United States patent application 20110145940, “TAL effector-mediated DNA modification”). The patents are co-owned by Iowa State University and the University of Minnesota, and have been licensed to Cellectis, a European biotechnology company and vendor of TALENs and TALEN related services. DFV is a paid consultant for, and ZLD is a full time employee of Cellectis Plant Sciences, a subsidiary of Cellectis. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ELD AWH ZLD DFV PB AJB. Performed the experiments: ELD AWH ZLD CGS PB. Analyzed the data: ELD AWH ZLD CGS DFV PB AJB. Wrote the manuscript: ELD AWH PB AJB. Assistance in writing the manuscript: CGS ZLD DFV.