About the Authors

Feng-Jie Sun

Affiliation Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

gca@uiuc.edu

Affiliation Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: F-JS GC-A. Performed the experiments: F-JS GC-A. Analyzed the data: F-JS GC-A. Wrote the paper: F-JS GC-A.