About the Authors

Meenu S. Padmanabhan

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology and The Genome Center, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Shisong Ma

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology and The Genome Center, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Tessa M. Burch-Smith

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Kirk Czymmek

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Peter Huijser

Affiliation Department of Comparative Development and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar

spdineshkumar@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology and The Genome Center, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSP SM TMBS KC SPDK. Performed the experiments: MSP TMBS KC. Analyzed the data: MSP SM TMBS KC PH SPDK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSP SM TMBS KC PH SPDK. Wrote the paper: MSP PH SPDK.