About the Authors

Melissa A. Scranton

Current address: Department of Food and Fuel for the 21st Century, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Jonathan H. Fowler

Current address: Institute for Core Studies, Queens Campus, St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Thomas Girke

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Linda L. Walling

linda.walling@ucr.edu

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAS JHF TG LLW. Performed the experiments: MAS JHF. Analyzed the data: MAS TG LLW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAS JHF LLW. Wrote the manuscript: MAS LLW.