About the Authors

Maria del Pilar Marquez-Villavicencio

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Brooke Weber

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

R. Andrews Witherell

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

David K. Willis

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Vegetable Crops Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Amy O. Charkowski

acharkowski@plantpath.wisc.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MMV BW RAW DKW AOC. Performed the experiments: MMV BW RAW DKW AOC. Analyzed the data: MMV BW RAW DKW AOC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MMV BW RAW DKW AOC. Wrote the paper: MMV BW RAW DKW AOC.