About the Authors

Efrain E. Rivera-Serrano

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Maria F. Rodriguez-Welsh

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Glenn R. Hicks

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Marcela Rojas-Pierce

mrojasp@ncsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRP. Performed the experiments: MRP ERS MRW. Analyzed the data: MRP ERS MFR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GRH. Wrote the paper: MRP.