About the Authors

Periasamy Chitrampalam

Contributed equally to this work with: Periasamy Chitrampalam, Patrik Inderbitzin

Current address: Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Patrik Inderbitzin

Contributed equally to this work with: Periasamy Chitrampalam, Patrik Inderbitzin

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Karunakaran Maruthachalam

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Bo-Ming Wu

Current address: Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Krishna V. Subbarao

kvsubbarao@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PI PC KM BW KVS. Performed the experiments: PC PI KM BW. Analyzed the data: PI PC KM BW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PC KM BW KVS. Wrote the paper: PI PC KM BW KVS.