About the Authors

Bode A. Olukolu

Contributed equally to this work with: Bode A. Olukolu, Guan-Feng Wang, Vijay Vontimitta

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Guan-Feng Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Bode A. Olukolu, Guan-Feng Wang, Vijay Vontimitta

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Vijay Vontimitta

Contributed equally to this work with: Bode A. Olukolu, Guan-Feng Wang, Vijay Vontimitta

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, Lilly Hall, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Bala P. Venkata

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, Lilly Hall, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Sandeep Marla

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, Lilly Hall, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Jiabing Ji

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, Lilly Hall, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Emma Gachomo

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, Lilly Hall, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Kevin Chu

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, Lilly Hall, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Adisu Negeri

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Jacqueline Benson

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Rebecca Nelson

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Peter Bradbury

Affiliation Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Dahlia Nielsen

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

James B. Holland

Affiliations USDA-ARS Plant Science Research Unit, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Crop Science, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Peter J. Balint-Kurti

peter.balint-kurti@ars.usda.gov

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, USDA-ARS Plant Science Research Unit, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Gurmukh Johal

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, Lilly Hall, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GFW AN PJBK GJ. Performed the experiments: BAO GFW VV BPV SM JJ EG KC AN JB RN PB PJBK GJ. Analyzed the data: BAO GFW VV JB DN JBH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PB DN JBH PJBK GJ. Wrote the paper: BAO GFW JBH PJBK GJ.