About the Authors

Hou-Sung Jung

Current address: Plant Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Yuki Okegawa

Current address: Department of Bioresource and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan

Affiliations Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Patrick M. Shih

Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Elizabeth Kellogg

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Salah E. Abdel-Ghany

Current address: Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

Affiliation Biology Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Marinus Pilon

Affiliation Biology Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Kimmen Sjölander

Affiliations Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Toshiharu Shikanai

Affiliation Department of Botany, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Krishna K. Niyogi

niyogi@nature.berkeley.edu

Affiliations Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HSJ MP KS TS KKN. Performed the experiments: HSJ YO PMS EK SEAG KKN. Analyzed the data: HSJ MP KS TS KKN. Wrote the paper: HSJ MP KS TS KKN.