About the Authors

Lin Jin

Affiliation Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Jong Hyun Ham

Affiliations Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Rosemary Hage

Current address: Ohio Department of Health Laboratory, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Wanying Zhao

Affiliation Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Jaricelis Soto-Hernández

Current address: Department of Natural Sciences, University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Sang Yeol Lee

Affiliation Division of Applied Life Science (BK21Plus), PMBBRC, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju daero, Jinju, Republic of Korea

Seung-Mann Paek

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, PMBBRC, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju daero, Jinju, Republic of Korea

Min Gab Kim

Affiliation College of Pharmacy, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, PMBBRC, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju daero, Jinju, Republic of Korea

Charles Boone

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

David L. Coplin

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

David Mackey

mackey.86@osu.edu

Affiliations Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics, 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: DM DLC LJ JHH RH SYL. Performed the experiments: LJ JHH RH WZ JSH MGK. Analyzed the data: LJ JHH RH DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CB SMP. Wrote the paper: LJ DM. Edited the paper: DLC JHH RH.