About the Authors

Xiao-Ning Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Ning Zhang, Yingjie Wu

xnzhang@umd.edu

Current address: Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Plant Science Institute, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yingjie Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Ning Zhang, Yingjie Wu

Current address: Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Plant Science Institute, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

John W. Tobias

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Brian P. Brunk

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Gerald F. Deitzer

Affiliation Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Dongmei Liu

Current address: Bristol Myers Squibb, Wallingford, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation Plant Science Institute, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XNZ. Performed the experiments: XNZ YW DL. Analyzed the data: XNZ JWT BB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XNZ YW. Wrote the paper: XNZ YW. Editing the manuscript: GFD.