About the Authors

Liang Ran

Contributed equally to this work with: Liang Ran, John Larsson

Affiliation Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

John Larsson

Contributed equally to this work with: Liang Ran, John Larsson

Affiliation Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Theoden Vigil-Stenman

Affiliation Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Johan A. A. Nylander

Affiliation Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Karolina Ininbergs

Affiliation Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Wei-Wen Zheng

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China

Alla Lapidus

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Stephen Lowry

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Robert Haselkorn

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Birgitta Bergman

bergmanb@botan.su.se

Affiliation Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LR JL TVS JN WWZ RH BB. Performed the experiments: LR JL TVS JN KI AL SL. Analyzed the data: LR JL TVS JN KI WWZ AL SL RH BB. Wrote the paper: LR JL TVS JN BB.