About the Authors

Marika H. Olcott

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Marcella D. Henkels

Affiliation Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Station, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Kise L. Rosen

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Francesca L.Walker

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Baruch Sneh

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Joyce E. Loper

Affiliations Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Station, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Barbara J. Taylor

taylorb@science.oregonstate.edu

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MHO MDH BS JL BT. Performed the experiments: MHO MDH KLR FLW BT. Analyzed the data: MHO MDH KLR FLW BS JL BT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL BT. Wrote the paper: MHO MDH JL BT.