About the Authors

Joyce E. Loper

Joyce.Loper@ars.usda.gov

Affiliations Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Karl A. Hassan

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Dmitri V. Mavrodi

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Edward W. Davis II

Affiliation Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Chee Kent Lim

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Brenda T. Shaffer

Affiliation Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Liam D. H. Elbourne

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Virginia O. Stockwell

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Sierra L. Hartney

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Katy Breakwell

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Marcella D. Henkels

Affiliation Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Sasha G. Tetu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Lorena I. Rangel

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Teresa A. Kidarsa

Affiliation Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Neil L. Wilson

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Judith E. van de Mortel

Affiliation Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Chunxu Song

Affiliation Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Rachel Blumhagen

Affiliation Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Diana Radune

Affiliation The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jessica B. Hostetler

Affiliation The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Lauren M. Brinkac

Affiliation The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

A. Scott Durkin

Affiliation The J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Daniel A. Kluepfel

Affiliation Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Davis, California, United States of America

W. Patrick Wechter

Affiliation Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Anne J. Anderson

Affiliation Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Young Cheol Kim

Affiliation Institute of Environmentally-Friendly Agriculture, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea

Leland S. Pierson III

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Elizabeth A. Pierson

Affiliation Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Steven E. Lindow

Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Donald Y. Kobayashi

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Jos M. Raaijmakers

Affiliation Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

David M. Weller

Affiliation Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Linda S. Thomashow

Affiliation Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Andrew E. Allen

Affiliation The J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Ian T. Paulsen

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JEL KAH DVM EWD BTS VOS MDH TAK EAP LSP JMR LST AEA ITP DYK. Performed the experiments: KAH DVM EWD BTS VOS MDH TAK KB LIR JEvdM RB. Analyzed the data: JEL KAH DVM EWD CKL LDHE SLH SGT NLW DR JBH LMB ASD CKL BTS VOS MDH CS JEvdM JMR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DAK WPW AJA YCK LSP SEL DMW DYK. Wrote the paper: JEL KAH DVM EWD LST ITP.