About the Authors

Sunita Kumari

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America,

Doreen Ware

ware@cshl.edu

Affiliations Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America,, United States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK DW. Performed the experiments: SK. Analyzed the data: SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK DW. Wrote the paper: SK DW.