About the Authors

Alex Boyko

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada

Todd Blevins

Current address: Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Affiliation Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Youli Yao

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada

Andrey Golubov

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada

Andriy Bilichak

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada

Yaroslav Ilnytskyy

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada

Jens Hollander

Affiliations Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Molecular Genetics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Frederick Meins Jr

Affiliation Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Igor Kovalchuk

igor.kovalchuk@uleth.ca

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB TB FM,Jr. IK. Performed the experiments: AB TB YY AG AB YI JH IK. Analyzed the data: AB TB YY AG AB YI JH FM,Jr. IK. Wrote the paper: AB FM,Jr. IK.