About the Authors

Dung Tien Le

Affiliations Signaling Pathway Research Unit, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, National Key Laboratory of Plant Cell Biotechnology and Agricultural Genetics Institute, Vietnamese Academy of Agricultural Science, Hanoi, Vietnam

Rie Nishiyama

Affiliation Signaling Pathway Research Unit, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Yasuko Watanabe

Affiliation Signaling Pathway Research Unit, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Maho Tanaka

Affiliation Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Motoaki Seki

Affiliation Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Le Huy Ham

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Plant Cell Biotechnology and Agricultural Genetics Institute, Vietnamese Academy of Agricultural Science, Hanoi, Vietnam

Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki

Affiliation Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Kazuo Shinozaki

Affiliation Gene Discovery Research Group, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Lam-Son Phan Tran

tran@psc.riken.jp

Affiliation Signaling Pathway Research Unit, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

Co-author Lam-Son Phan Tran is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: L-SPT. Performed the experiments: DTL RN YW MT. Analyzed the data: DTL L-SPT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS LHH KY-S KS L-SPT. Wrote the paper: DTL L-SPT. Revised the manuscript: DTL L-SPT.