About the Authors

Nilwala S. Abeysekara

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Madan K. Bhattacharyya

mbhattac@iastate.edu

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MKB. Performed the experiments: NSA. Analyzed the data: NSA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NSA. Wrote the paper: NSA MKB.