About the Authors

Alexander Krichevsky

akrichevsky@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Benjamin Meyers

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Alexander Vainstein

Affiliation The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

Pal Maliga

Affiliation Waksman Institute, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Vitaly Citovsky

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

AK is a founder of BioGlow Inc.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK. Performed the experiments: BM. Analyzed the data: AK. Wrote the paper: AK VA PM VC.