About the Authors

Howard S. Judelson

howard.judelson@ucr.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Jolly Shrivastava

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Joseph Manson

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HSJ. Performed the experiments: JS JM HSJ. Analyzed the data: JS JM HSJ. Wrote the paper: HSJ.