About the Authors

Todd P. Michael

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sohyun Park

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Tae-Sung Kim

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Jim Booth

Affiliation Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Amanda Byer

Affiliation Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Qi Sun

Affiliation Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Joanne Chory

Affiliations Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Kwangwon Lee

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kl272@cornell.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, 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: KL TM. Performed the experiments: QS KL TM SP TK AB. Analyzed the data: JC KL TM JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC KL. Wrote the paper: JC KL TM.