About the Authors

Weiya Xue

Affiliation Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden

Colin Ruprecht

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany

Nathaniel Street

Affiliation Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Kian Hematy

Affiliation Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA-AgroParisTech, Versailles, France

Christine Chang

Current address: Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California, United States of America

Wolf B. Frommer

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California, United States of America

Staffan Persson

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany

Totte Niittylä

totte.niittyla@slu.se

Affiliations Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden, Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WX CR SP WBF TN. Performed the experiments: WX CR SP TN KH NS CC. Analyzed the data: WX CR SP WBF TN KH NS CC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WBF TN SP. Wrote the paper: WX CR SP WBF TN.