About the Authors

Ming Li Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Li Wang, Pawan Khera, Manish K. Pandey

Affiliation Plant Genetics Resources Conservation Unit, US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Griffin, Georgia, United States of America

Pawan Khera

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Li Wang, Pawan Khera, Manish K. Pandey

Affiliations Crop Protection and Management Research Unit, US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Tifton, Georgia, United States of America, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Tifton, Georgia, United States of America

Manish K. Pandey

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming Li Wang, Pawan Khera, Manish K. Pandey

Affiliations Crop Protection and Management Research Unit, US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Tifton, Georgia, United States of America, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Tifton, Georgia, United States of America

Hui Wang

Affiliations Crop Protection and Management Research Unit, US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Tifton, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Tifton, Georgia, United States of America, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

Lixian Qiao

Affiliations Crop Protection and Management Research Unit, US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Tifton, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Tifton, Georgia, United States of America, College of Life Science, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, Shandong, China

Suping Feng

Affiliations Crop Protection and Management Research Unit, US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Tifton, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Tifton, Georgia, United States of America, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Qiongzhou University, Sanya, Hainan, China

Brandon Tonnis

Affiliation Plant Genetics Resources Conservation Unit, US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Griffin, Georgia, United States of America

Noelle A. Barkley

Affiliation Plant Genetics Resources Conservation Unit, US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Griffin, Georgia, United States of America

David Pinnow

Affiliation Plant Genetics Resources Conservation Unit, US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Griffin, Georgia, United States of America

Corley C. Holbrook

Affiliation Crop Genetics and Breeding Research Unit, US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Tifton, Georgia, United States of America

Albert K. Culbreath

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Tifton, Georgia, United States of America

Rajeev K. Varshney

baozhu.guo@ars.usda.gov (BG); r.k.varshney@cgiar.org (RKV)

Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Baozhu Guo

baozhu.guo@ars.usda.gov (BG); r.k.varshney@cgiar.org (RKV)

Affiliations Crop Protection and Management Research Unit, US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Tifton, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Tifton, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

Georgia Agricultural Commodity Commission for Peanuts, Peanut Foundation and National Peanut Board provided funding towards this study. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BG RKV. Performed the experiments: HW LQ SF MLW NAB BT PK MKP DP. Analyzed the data: MKP PK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CCH AKC. Wrote the paper: PK MKP BG RKV.