*Satoshi Kidokoro^1,2, Izumi Konoura², Kentaro Hayashi², Fumiyuki Soma², Takamasa Suzuki³, Takuya Miyakawa^2,4, Masaru Tanokura², Kazuo Shinozaki⁵, Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki^2,6 (1. Sch. of Life Sci. and Tech., Tokyo Tech, Japan, 2. Grad. Sch. Agr. Life Sci., Univ. Tokyo, Japan, 3. Biosci. Biotech., Chubu Univ., Japan, 4. Grad. Sch. of Biostudies, Kyoto Univ., Japan, 5. Center for Sustainable Resource Science, RIKEN, Japan, 6. Res. Inst. Agr. Life Sci., Tokyo Univ. Agr., Japan)

*Junghyun Kim¹, Sibum Sung¹ (1. The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

*Sourav Mukherjee¹, Avilash Singh Yadav¹, Nikita Bungay¹, Amy Smith¹, Craig I Dent¹, Partha P Das², Yalong Guo³, Sridevi Sureshkumar¹, Sureshkumar Balasubramanian¹ (1. School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, VIC 3800, AUSTRALIA, 2. Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, VIC 3800, AUSTRALIA, 3. State Key Laboratory of Systemic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CHINA)

*Rio Shimizu¹, Mai Yunose¹, Kohei Oyoshi¹, Nobuhiro Suzuki¹ (1. Sophia University, Japan)

*Nobutoshi Yamaguchi¹ (1. Nara Institute of Science and Technology )

*Yee-yung Charng^1,2,3,4, Suma Mitra^1,2,5, Shih-Jiun Yu^1,4 (1. Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2. Molecular and Biological Agricultural Sciences Program, TIGP, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 3. Biotechnology Center, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan, 4. Department of Biochemical Sciences and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 5. Graduate Institute of Biotechnology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan)

*JENG-SHANE LIN¹, Wei-An Tsai², Po-Han Sung¹, Yun-Wei Kuo^4,1, Ming-Cheng Chen¹, Shih-Tong Jeng³ (1. National Chung Hsing University, 2. The University of Queensland, 3. National Taiwan University, 4. Sanming Academy of Agricultural Sciences)

*Apoorva Gupta¹, Sombir Rao¹, Saloni Mathur¹ (1. National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi, India)

*Jeongeui Hong¹, Hojin Ryu¹ (1. Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea)

*Gouri Satheesh¹, Chandan Sahi¹ (1. Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India)

*Shao-Li Yang^1,2, Cassio Flavio Fonseca De Lima^1,2, Tingting Zhu^1,2, Brigitte Van de Cotte^1,2, Lam Dai Vu^1,2, Ive De Smet^1,2 (1. Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2. VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium)

*Daisuke Todaka¹, Quynh Thi Nhu Do^1,4, Maho Tanaka^1,2, Akihiro Ezoe¹, Satoshi Takahashi^1,2, Junko Ishida^1,2, Miyako Kusano^5,6,7, Makoto Kobayashi⁵, Kazuki Saito⁵, Atsushi J. Nagano^8,9, Motoaki Seki^1,2,3 (1. Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN CSRS, Japan, 2. Plant Epigenome Regulation Laboratory, RIKEN CPR, Japan, 3. Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University, Japan, 4. Agricultural Genetics Institute, Vietnam, 5. Metabolomics Research Group, RIKEN CSRS, Japan, 6. Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan, 7. Tsukuba Plant Innovation Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Japan, 8. Faculty of Agriculture, Ryukoku University, Japan, 9. Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Japan)

*Matt Jones¹, Allan B James¹, Chantal Sharples^1,4, Janet Laird¹, Emily May Armstrong¹, Wenbin Guo², Nikoleta Tzioutziou^2,3, Runxuan Zhang², John WS Brown^2,3, Hugh G Nimmo¹ (1. University of Glasgow, 2. James Hutton Institute, 3. University of Dundee, 4. Bielefeld University)

*Sumaiya Jannat Tapati¹, Nagib Ahsan², Abidur Rahman^3,4,5 (1. The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Iwate University, Morioka 020-8550, Japan, 2. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA, 3. The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Iwate University, Morioka 020-8550, Japan, 4. Department of Plant Biosciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka 020-8550, Japan, 5. Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8, Canada)