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- November 22, 2019.
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- 1Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India
- 2Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, 500 007, India
- ↵#Corresponding author(s) details: Utpal Nath, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India; phone + 91 (0)80 22932414; fax+ 91 (0)80 23602697 utpalnath{at}iisc.ac.in
↵* These two authors contributed equally
List of author contributions: PK mapped and cloned TNI, performed part of phenotypic analysis, generated TNIover-expression line, down-regulation line and pTNI::GUS line and analyzed them; PM performed part of phenotypic analysis and all the auxin-related experiments, analyzed the data, made the figures and wrote the first draft of the MS. IS guided PK with intellectual and material inputs in cloning TNI.UN contributed in designing experiments, guided the first two authors and finalized the manuscript.