About the Authors

Alexandre Tromas

Affiliation Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS UPR2355, Université Paris Sud Orsay, Gif sur Yvette, France

Nils Braun

Current address: Station de génétique et amélioration des plantes, INRA, Versailles, France

Affiliations Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS UPR2355, Université Paris Sud Orsay, Gif sur Yvette, France, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Philippe Muller

Affiliation Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS UPR2355, Université Paris Sud Orsay, Gif sur Yvette, France

Tatyana Khodus

Affiliation Institut für Biology II – Zellbiologie Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Ivan A. Paponov

Affiliation Institut für Biology II – Zellbiologie Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Klaus Palme

Affiliation Institut für Biology II – Zellbiologie Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Karin Ljung

Affiliation Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet, Umeå, Sweden

Ji-Young Lee

Affiliation Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Philip Benfey

Affiliation Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

James A. H. Murray

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ben Scheres

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Catherine Perrot-Rechenmann

catherine.rechenmann@isv.cnrs-gif.fr

Affiliation Institut des Sciences du Végétal, CNRS UPR2355, Université Paris Sud Orsay, Gif sur Yvette, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AT NB IAP KL JAHM CPR. Performed the experiments: AT NB PM TK IAP KL. Analyzed the data: AT NB PM IAP KP KL PNB JAHM BS CPR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KP JYL PNB BS. Wrote the paper: AT BS CPR.