About the Authors

Yasuhiro Ishiga

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasuhiro Ishiga, Takako Ishiga

yishiga@noble.org (YI); ksmysore@noble.org (KM)

Affiliation Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America

Takako Ishiga

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasuhiro Ishiga, Takako Ishiga

Affiliation Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America

Srinivasa Rao Uppalapati

Affiliation Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America

Kirankumar S. Mysore

yishiga@noble.org (YI); ksmysore@noble.org (KM)

Affiliation Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YI TI SRU KSM. Performed the experiments: TI YI SRU. Analyzed the data: TI YI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SRU KSM. Wrote the paper: YI TI KSM.