About the Authors

Rie Nishiyama

Affiliation Signaling Pathway Research Unit, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Dung Tien Le

Affiliations Signaling Pathway Research Unit, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Agricultural Genetics Institute, Vietnamese Academy of Agricultural Science, Hanoi, Vietnam

Yasuko Watanabe

Affiliation Signaling Pathway Research Unit, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Akihiro Matsui

Affiliation Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Maho Tanaka

Affiliation Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Motoaki Seki

Affiliation Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki

Affiliation Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Kazuo Shinozaki

Affiliation Gene Discovery Research Group, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Lam-Son Phan Tran

tran@psc.riken.jp

Affiliation Signaling Pathway Research Unit, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: L-SPT. Performed the experiments: RN YW MT. Analyzed the data: RN DTL AM MS L-SPT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS KY-S KS L-SPT. Wrote the paper: L-SPT.