About the Authors

Yun Lee

Affiliations Integrative BioSystems Institute and The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, BioEnergy Sciences Center (BESC), Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Fang Chen

Affiliations BioEnergy Sciences Center (BESC), Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America

Lina Gallego-Giraldo

Affiliation Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America

Richard A. Dixon

Affiliations BioEnergy Sciences Center (BESC), Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America

Eberhard O. Voit

eberhard.voit@bme.gatech.edu

Affiliations Integrative BioSystems Institute and The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, BioEnergy Sciences Center (BESC), Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL EOV. Performed the experiments: YL LGG. Analyzed the data: YL EOV. Wrote the paper: YL EOV. Contributed data and discussed results and the developing manuscript on several occasions: FC RAD.