About the Authors

Vera Krischik

krisc001@umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Mary Rogers

Affiliation Department of Horticultural Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Garima Gupta

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Aruna Varshney

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VK. Performed the experiments: VK MR GG AV. Analyzed the data: VK MR GG AV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VK. Wrote the paper: VK MR GG AV.