About the Authors

Takao Kasuga

tkasuga@ucdavis.edu

Affiliations Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Gertrud Mannhaupt

Affiliation Helmholtz Centre Munich, German Research Centre for Environmental Health (GmbH), Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Neuherberg, Germany

N. Louise Glass

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TK NLG. Performed the experiments: TK GM. Analyzed the data: TK GM NLG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK NLG. Wrote the paper: TK NLG.