About the Authors

Gerald N. De La Fuente

Affiliation Department of Soil and Crop Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Seth C. Murray

sethmurray@tamu.edu

Affiliation Department of Soil and Crop Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Thomas Isakeit

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

Yong-Soon Park

Current address: Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Daejeon, South Korea

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

Yuanxin Yan

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

Marilyn L. Warburton

Affiliation Corn Host Plant Resistance Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Mississippi State, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Michael V. Kolomiets

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GND SCM TI MVK. Performed the experiments: GND YY. Analyzed the data: GND SCM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SCM MVK MLW. Wrote the paper: GND SCM TI Y-SP YY MLW MVK.