About the Authors

Norman Warthmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Norman Warthmann, Hao Chen

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: norman@warthmann.com (NW); p.herve@cgiar.org (PH)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Hao Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Norman Warthmann, Hao Chen

Affiliation International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Metro Manila, Philippines

Stephan Ossowski

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Detlef Weigel

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Philippe Hervé

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: norman@warthmann.com (NW); p.herve@cgiar.org (PH)

Current address: Exelixis Plant Sciences, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Affiliation International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Metro Manila, Philippines

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: NW HC SO. Wrote the paper: DW NW HC PH. Other: Designed research: PH. Coordinated: PH DW. Did computational work: SO. Performed rice transformations: HC. Did molecular and plant evaluation work: HC. Selected and cloned stemloop and amiRNAs: NW. Did molecular and computational work: NW.