About the Authors

Donald M. Gardiner

donald.gardiner@csiro.au

Affiliation Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Megan C. McDonald

Affiliation Plant Pathology, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Lorenzo Covarelli

Affiliations Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Ambientali, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Perugia, Forgo XX Giugno, Perugia, Italy

Peter S. Solomon

Affiliation Research School of Biology, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Anca G. Rusu

Affiliation Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Mhairi Marshall

Affiliation Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Kemal Kazan

Affiliation Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Sukumar Chakraborty

Affiliation Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Bruce A. McDonald

Affiliation Plant Pathology, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

John M. Manners

Affiliation Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Plant Industry, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DMG JMM KK SC PSS. Performed the experiments: DMG AGR PSS LC MCM. Analyzed the data: DMG MCM PSS JMM BAM KK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM BAM. Wrote the paper: DMG KK BAM JMM. Computational analysis: DMG MM.