About the Authors

Sizolwenkosi Mlotshwa

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Gail J. Pruss

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Angela Peragine

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Matthew W. Endres

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Junjie Li

Current address: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences and Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Xuemei Chen

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences and Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

R. Scott Poethig

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lewis H. Bowman

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Vicki Vance

vance@biol.sc.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VV SM LB. Performed the experiments: SM. Analyzed the data: VV GP SM LB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SP XC SM AP ME JL. Wrote the paper: VV GP SM LB. Other: Generated the dcl4-10 mutant: SP AP.