About the Authors

Shaowu Xue

Current address: Institute of Molecular Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Xuan Yao

Current address: National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Wei Luo

Affiliations Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Deepa Jha

Affiliation Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Mark Tester

Affiliation Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Tomoaki Horie

Current address: Division of Applied Biology, Shinshu University, Tokita, Ueda, Nagano, Japan

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Julian I. Schroeder

jischroeder@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, University of California, San Diego, 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: JIS SX. Performed the experiments: SX XY WL DJ TH. Analyzed the data: SX XY WL MT JIS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SX XY. Wrote the paper: SX JIS.