About the Authors

Elizabeth A. Savory

Contributed equally to this work with: Elizabeth A. Savory, Bishwo N. Adhikari

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Bishwo N. Adhikari

Contributed equally to this work with: Elizabeth A. Savory, Bishwo N. Adhikari

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

John P. Hamilton

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Brieanne Vaillancourt

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

C. Robin Buell

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Brad Day

bday@msu.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EAS BNA CRB BD. Performed the experiments: EAS BNA JPH BV. Analyzed the data: EAS BNA JPH CRB BD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EAS BNA JPH CRB BD. Wrote the paper: EAS BNA CRB BD.