About the Authors

Neena Mitter

Affiliation Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, the University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

Vikas Koundal

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Sarah Williams

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Biology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia

Hanu Pappu

hrp@wsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HP NM. Performed the experiments: VK SW. Analyzed the data: HP NM SW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HP NM VK SW. Wrote the manuscript: NM HP SW.