About the Authors

Long-Xi Yu

longxi.yu@ars.usda.gov

Current address: United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, Vegetable and Forage Crop Research Unit, Prosser, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Mandayam V. Parthasarathy

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MVP. Performed the experiments: LXY. Analyzed the data: LXY. Wrote the paper: LXY MVP.