About the Authors

Shushu Jiang

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

Jian Yao

Affiliation DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East lancing, Michigan, United States of America

Ka-Wai Ma

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

Huanbin Zhou

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Jikui Song

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Sheng Yang He

Affiliations DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East lancing, Michigan, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Wenbo Ma

wenbo.ma@ucr.edu

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Institute of Integrative Genomics, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WM SYH. Performed the experiments: SJ JY KWM HZ. Analyzed the data: WM SYH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS. Wrote the paper: WM SJ SYH.