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Edited by Julia Bailey-Serres, University of California, Riverside, CA, and approved July 31, 2017 (received for review May 7, 2017)
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- Maria Angels de Luis Balaguera,
- Adam P. Fishera,
- Natalie M. Clarka,b,
- Maria Guadalupe Fernandez-Espinosac,
- Barbara K. Möllerd,1,
- Dolf Weijersd,
- Jan U. Lohmanne,
- Cranos Williamsf,
- Oscar Lorenzoc, and
- Rosangela Sozzania,b,2
- aPlant and Microbial Biology Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695;
- bBiomathematics Program, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695;
- cDepartamento de Botánica y Fisiología Vegetal, Instituto Hispano-Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Salamanca, 37185 Salamanca, Spain;
- dLaboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, 6703HA, Wageningen, The Netherlands;
- eDepartment of Stem Cell Biology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg D-69120, Germany;
- fElectrical and Computer Engineering Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695
Edited by Julia Bailey-Serres, University of California, Riverside, CA, and approved July 31, 2017 (received for review May 7, 2017)
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↵1Present addresses: Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), B-9052 Ghent, Belgium; and Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium.
- ↵2To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: ross_sozzani{at}ncsu.edu.
Author contributions: M.A.d.L.B. and R.S. designed research; M.A.d.L.B., A.P.F., N.M.C., M.G.F.-E., B.K.M., D.W., O.L., and R.S. performed research; J.U.L. and C.W. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; M.A.d.L.B., A.P.F., and N.M.C. analyzed data; and M.A.d.L.B. and R.S. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
Data deposition: The data reported in this paper have been deposited in the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo (accession nos. GSE76710, GSE97792, and GSE97857).
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1707566114/-/DCSupplemental.
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