About the Authors

Sureshkumar Balasubramanian

Contributed equally to this work with: Sureshkumar Balasubramanian, Christopher Schwartz

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

Christopher Schwartz

Contributed equally to this work with: Sureshkumar Balasubramanian, Christopher Schwartz

Affiliations Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Anandita Singh

Current address: TERI University, New Delhi, India

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Norman Warthmann

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany, Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Min Chul Kim

Current address: Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Korea

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Julin N. Maloof

Affiliations Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Section of Plant Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Olivier Loudet

Affiliations Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, California, United States of America, INRA, Genetics and plant breeding - SGAP, Versailles, France

Gabriel T. Trainer

Affiliation Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Tsegaye Dabi

Affiliation Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Justin O. Borevitz

Affiliations Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Joanne Chory

Affiliations Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Detlef Weigel

weigel@weigelworld.org

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany, Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB CS JM JOB JC DW. Performed the experiments: SB CS AS MCK JM OL GTT TD JOB. Analyzed the data: SB CS NW JM JOB. Wrote the paper: SB CS JM JOB JC DW. Coordinated research: DW JC. Generated RILS: SB CS AS MCK JM GTT TD JOB. Phenotyped RILs: SB CS AS MCK JM OL JOB.