About the Authors

Mi Ha Le

Contributed equally to this work with: Mi Ha Le, Yangrong Cao

Affiliation Divisions of Plant Sciences and Biochemistry, National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, C.S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Yangrong Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Mi Ha Le, Yangrong Cao

Affiliation Divisions of Plant Sciences and Biochemistry, National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, C.S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Xue-Cheng Zhang

Current address: Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Divisions of Plant Sciences and Biochemistry, National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, C.S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Gary Stacey

staceyg@missouri.edu

Affiliation Divisions of Plant Sciences and Biochemistry, National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, C.S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MHL YC GS. Performed the experiments: MHL YC XCZ. Analyzed the data: MHL YC XCZ GS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHL YC XCZ. Wrote the paper: MHL YC XCZ GS.