About the Authors

Joanna Clarke

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jclarke@plos.org (JC); pcronald@ucdavis.edu (PCR)

Affiliation Public Library of Science, San Francisco, California, United States of America and Cambridge, United Kingdom

Pamela C. Ronald

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jclarke@plos.org (JC); pcronald@ucdavis.edu (PCR)

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, The Joint Bioenergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, The Innovative Genomics Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JC is a current paid employee of the Public Library of Science.