About the Authors

David Rotsch

Contributed equally to this work with: David Rotsch, Tom Brossard, Saadia Bihmidine, David M. Braun

Current address: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Tom Brossard

Contributed equally to this work with: David Rotsch, Tom Brossard, Saadia Bihmidine, David M. Braun

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Saadia Bihmidine

Contributed equally to this work with: David Rotsch, Tom Brossard, Saadia Bihmidine, David M. Braun

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, Interdisciplinary Plant Group and the Missouri Maize Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Weijiang Ying

Current address: Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Vikram Gaddam

Current address: School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Michael Harmata

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

J. David Robertson

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, University of Missouri Research Reactor, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Michael Swyers

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, Interdisciplinary Plant Group and the Missouri Maize Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Silvia S. Jurisson

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

David M. Braun

Contributed equally to this work with: David Rotsch, Tom Brossard, Saadia Bihmidine, David M. Braun

braundm@missouri.edu

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, Interdisciplinary Plant Group and the Missouri Maize Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DR TB SB WY VG MH JDR SJ DMB. Performed the experiments: DR TB SB WY VG MS. Analyzed the data: DR TB SB MH JDR MS SJ DMB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DR TB SB WY VG MH JDR MS SJ DMB. Wrote the paper: DR TB SB MH JDR SJ DMB.