About the Authors

Soonok Kim

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

Jinnan Hu

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

Yeonyee Oh

Affiliation Center for Integrated Fungal Research, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Jongsun Park

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Center for Agricultural Biomaterials, Center for Fungal Genetic Resources, and Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Jinhee Choi

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Center for Agricultural Biomaterials, Center for Fungal Genetic Resources, and Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Yong-Hwan Lee

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Center for Agricultural Biomaterials, Center for Fungal Genetic Resources, and Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Ralph A. Dean

Affiliation Center for Integrated Fungal Research, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Thomas K. Mitchell

mitchell.815@osu.edu

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: SK YHL RAD TKM. Performed the experiments: SK JH YO JP JC. Analyzed the data: SK TKM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RAD. Wrote the paper: SK TKM.