About the Authors

Feng-Jie Sun

Affiliation Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

gca@uiuc.edu

Affiliation Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FJS GCA. Performed the experiments: FJS GCA. Analyzed the data: FJS GCA. Wrote the paper: FJS GCA.