About the Authors

Angela M. Orshinsky

Contributed equally to this work with: Angela M. Orshinsky, Jinnan Hu

aorshinsky@gmail.com

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

Jinnan Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Angela M. Orshinsky, Jinnan Hu

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

Stephen O. Opiyo

Affiliation Molecular and Cellular Imaging Center-Columbus. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Venu Reddyvari-Channarayappa

Affiliation Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center, Stuttgart, Arizona, United States of America

Thomas K. Mitchell

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

Michael J. Boehm

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, 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: MJB TKM VRC. Performed the experiments: VRC AMO JH. Analyzed the data: AMO JH SO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJB TKM SO. Wrote the paper: AMO JH.