About the Authors

Diane G. O. Saunders

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

Joe Win

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

Liliana M. Cano

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

Les J. Szabo

Affiliation Cereal Disease Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Sophien Kamoun

sophien.kamoun@tsl.ac.uk (SK); sylvain.raffaele@tsl.ac.uk (SR)

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

Sylvain Raffaele

sophien.kamoun@tsl.ac.uk (SK); sylvain.raffaele@tsl.ac.uk (SR)

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DGOS SK SR. Performed the experiments: DGOS JW LMC SR. Analyzed the data: DGOS JW LMC SR. Wrote the paper: DGOS JW SR SK. Provided gene expression data: LJS. Commented on the manuscript before submission: DGOS JW LMC LJS SK SR.