About the Authors

Sungjin Kim

Affiliation Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Devarshi S. Selote

Affiliation Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Olena K. Vatamaniuk

okv2@cornell.edu

Affiliation Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OKV. Performed the experiments: SK DSS. Analyzed the data: SK OKV. Wrote the paper: OKV.