Author contributions
K.K.P. and Y.T. did yeast two-hybrid, bimolecular fluorescence
complementation, Arabidopsis transformation. K.K.P., Y.T., X.Z.S.,
Z.P.R. and J.P.X. made the gene cloning, 5’ RLM RACE and DNA sequencing.
K.K.P., Y.T. and C.H.S. did western blots and co-express tae-miR399 and
MREs in N. benthamiana . K.K.P., Y.T., Y.Z.B., X.Z.S., Y.S.L.,
J.Y., D.Z. and Q.H.X. measured the plant physiological and phenotypic
indexes and analyzed the data. J.C. designed the experiments. K.K.P. and
Y.T. wrote the manuscript. All authors discussed the results and
approved the final manuscript.