About the Authors

Xiaoli Guo

Affiliations Division of Plant Sciences and Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Jianying Wang

Affiliation Division of Plant Sciences and Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Michael Gardner

Affiliation Division of Plant Sciences and Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Hiroo Fukuda

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yuki Kondo

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

J. Peter Etchells

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

Xiaohong Wang

Affiliation School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University and Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Melissa Goellner Mitchum

goellnerm@missouri.edu

Affiliation Division of Plant Sciences and Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: XG MGM. Formal analysis: XG MG. Funding acquisition: MGM XW. Investigation: XG JW MG. Project administration: MGM. Resources: XW YK HF JPE. Supervision: MGM. Visualization: XG JW MG MGM. Writing – original draft: XG JW MG MGM. Writing – review & editing: XG JW MG HF YK JPE XW MGM.