About the Authors

Manoj K. Sharma

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Rita Sharma

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Peijian Cao

Affiliation China Tobacco Gene Research Center, Zhengzhou Tobacco Research Institute, Zhengzhou, China

Jerry Jenkins

Affiliations HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America, United States Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Laura E. Bartley

Current address: Department of Botany and Microbiology, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Morgan Qualls

Affiliations HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America, United States Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Jane Grimwood

Affiliations HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America, United States Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Jeremy Schmutz

Affiliations HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America, United States Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Daniel Rokhsar

Affiliations United States Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Pamela C. Ronald

pcronald@ucdavis.edu

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MKS RS LEB PCR. Performed the experiments: MKS RS PC JG JS PC JJ MQ. Analyzed the data: MKS RS PC JG JS PC JJ MQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DR. Wrote the paper: MKS RS PCR.