About the Authors

Erik Lysøe

erik.lysoe@bioforsk.no

Affiliation Department of Plant Health and Plant Protection, Bioforsk - Norwegian Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Research, Ås, Norway

Linda J. Harris

Affiliation Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Sean Walkowiak

Affiliations Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada, Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Rajagopal Subramaniam

Affiliations Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada, Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Hege H. Divon

Affiliation Section of Mycology, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Oslo, Norway

Even S. Riiser

Affiliation Department of Plant Health and Plant Protection, Bioforsk - Norwegian Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Research, Ås, Norway

Carlos Llorens

Affiliation Biotechvana, València, Spain

Toni Gabaldón

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain

H. Corby Kistler

Affiliation ARS-USDA, Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Wilfried Jonkers

Affiliation ARS-USDA, Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Anna-Karin Kolseth

Affiliation Department of Crop Production Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Kristian F. Nielsen

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Ulf Thrane

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Rasmus J. N. Frandsen

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Competing Interests

One of the co-authors in this manuscript, Carlos Llorens, is employed by the company Biotechvana. The authors have purchased some bioinformatic analysis from Biotchvana, and Biotechvana has no ownership to any results or material. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EL LH SW HD HCK WJ KN UT RF. Performed the experiments: EL LH SW RS HCK WJ AKK KN UT RF. Analyzed the data: EL LH SW RS CL TG KN UT RF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EL LH SW RS CL TG AKK KN UT RF. Wrote the paper: EL LH SW HD ER TG HCK AKK KN UT RF.