About the Authors

Umesh K. Reddy

Contributed equally to this work with: Umesh K. Reddy, Aldo Almeida, Padma Nimmakayala

ureddy@wvstateu.edu

Affiliation Gus R. Douglass Institute and Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Aldo Almeida

Contributed equally to this work with: Umesh K. Reddy, Aldo Almeida, Padma Nimmakayala

Affiliation Gus R. Douglass Institute and Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Venkata L. Abburi

Affiliation Gus R. Douglass Institute and Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Suresh Babu Alaparthi

Affiliation Gus R. Douglass Institute and Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Desiree Unselt

Affiliation Gus R. Douglass Institute and Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Gerald Hankins

Affiliation Gus R. Douglass Institute and Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Minkyu Park

Affiliation Department of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Doil Choi

Affiliation Department of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Padma Nimmakayala

Contributed equally to this work with: Umesh K. Reddy, Aldo Almeida, Padma Nimmakayala

Affiliation Gus R. Douglass Institute and Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, West Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UKR AA GH PN. Performed the experiments: AA DU VLA SBA. Analyzed the data: UKR AA DC MP PN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UKR PN DC MP. Wrote the paper: UKR AA.