About the Authors

Dan Siegal-Gaskins

Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Siegal-Gaskins, Joshua N. Ash

dsg@mbi.osu.edu

Affiliations Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Plant Biotechnology Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Joshua N. Ash

Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Siegal-Gaskins, Joshua N. Ash

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Sean Crosson

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, The Committee on Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS-G. Performed the experiments: DS-G SC. Analyzed the data: DSG JNA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JNA. Wrote the paper: DS-G JNA SC.