About the Authors

Xiangzi Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiangzi Zheng, Hazel McLellan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany

Hazel McLellan

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiangzi Zheng, Hazel McLellan

Affiliation Division of Plant Sciences, University of Dundee (at James Hutton Institute), Invergowrie, Dundee, United Kingdom

Malou Fraiture

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany

Xiaoyu Liu

Current address: Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany

Petra C. Boevink

Affiliation Cell and Molecular Sciences, The James Hutton Institute, University of Dundee, Invergowrie, Dundee, United Kingdom

Eleanor M. Gilroy

Affiliation Cell and Molecular Sciences, The James Hutton Institute, University of Dundee, Invergowrie, Dundee, United Kingdom

Ying Chen

Current address: Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Gene Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany

Kabindra Kandel

Affiliation Division of Plant Sciences, University of Dundee (at James Hutton Institute), Invergowrie, Dundee, United Kingdom

Guido Sessa

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Paul R. J. Birch

Paul.Birch@hutton.ac.uk (PRJB); frederic.brunner@zmbp.uni-tuebingen.de (FB)

Affiliations Division of Plant Sciences, University of Dundee (at James Hutton Institute), Invergowrie, Dundee, United Kingdom, Cell and Molecular Sciences, The James Hutton Institute, University of Dundee, Invergowrie, Dundee, United Kingdom

Frédéric Brunner

Paul.Birch@hutton.ac.uk (PRJB); frederic.brunner@zmbp.uni-tuebingen.de (FB)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PRJB FB. Performed the experiments: XZ HM MF XL PCB EMG YC KK. Analyzed the data: XZ HM MF PCB PRJB FB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GS. Wrote the paper: PRJB FB.