About the Authors

Anju Gangadharan

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Mysore-Venkatarau Sreerekha

Current address: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Justin Whitehill

Current address: Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Jong Hyun Ham

Current address: Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

David Mackey

mackey.86@osu.edu

Affiliations Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG MS DM. Performed the experiments: AG MS JW. Analyzed the data: AG MS DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH. Wrote the paper: AG DM.