About the Authors

Robin MacDiarmid

robin.macdiarmid@plantandfood.co.nz

Affiliations The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Auckland, New Zealand, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Brendan Rodoni

Affiliation Department of Primary Industries, AgriBio – Centre for Agriobioscience, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

Ulrich Melcher

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Francisco Ochoa-Corona

Affiliation Institute for Microbial Forensics and Food and Agricultural Biosecurity (NIMFFAB), Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Marilyn Roossinck

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biology, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.