About the Authors

Jose C. Huguet-Tapia

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Dawn R. D. Bignell

Affiliation Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Rosemary Loria

rloria@ufl.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JH RL. Performed the experiments: JH. Analyzed the data: JH RL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH DB RL. Wrote the paper: JH DB RL.