About the Authors

Melanie J. Filiatrault

Melanie.filiatrault@ars.usda.gov

Affiliations lant-Microbe Interactions Research Unit, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Paul V. Stodghill

Affiliations lant-Microbe Interactions Research Unit, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Christopher R. Myers

Affiliations Life Sciences Core Laboratories Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Philip A. Bronstein

Current address: United States Department of Agriculture-Food Safety and Inspection Service, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Affiliations lant-Microbe Interactions Research Unit, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Bronwyn G. Butcher

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Hanh Lam

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

George Grills

Affiliation Life Sciences Core Laboratories Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Peter Schweitzer

Affiliation Life Sciences Core Laboratories Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Wei Wang

Affiliation Life Sciences Core Laboratories Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

David J. Schneider

Affiliations lant-Microbe Interactions Research Unit, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Samuel W. Cartinhour

Affiliations lant-Microbe Interactions Research Unit, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, 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: MJF PVS CRM GG PS WW DJS SWC. Performed the experiments: MJF PVS CRM PAB BGB HL SWC. Analyzed the data: MJF PVS CRM BGB HL SWC. Wrote the paper: MJF PVS CRM SWC.