About the Authors

Thomas E. Wilkop

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas E. Wilkop, Minmin Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Light Microscopy Core/ Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, United States of America

Minmin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas E. Wilkop, Minmin Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, United States of America

Angelo Heringer

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, United States of America

Jaideep Singh

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, California State University, Fresno, CA, United States of America

Florence Zakharov

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, United States of America

Viswanathan V. Krishnan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

krish@csufresno.edu, vvkrishnan@ucdavis.edu (VVK); gdrakakaki@ucdavis.edu (GD)

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, California State University, Fresno, CA, United States of America, Department of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, United States of America

Georgia Drakakaki

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

krish@csufresno.edu, vvkrishnan@ucdavis.edu (VVK); gdrakakaki@ucdavis.edu (GD)

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.