About the Authors

Claudia V. Castell-Miller

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Juan J. Gutierrez-Gonzalez

Affiliations Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, USDA-ARS-Plant Science Research Unit, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Zheng Jin Tu

Affiliation Mayo Clinic, Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Kathryn E. Bushley

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Matthieu Hainaut

Affiliations CNRS UMR 7257, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France, INRA, USC 1408 AFMB, Marseille, France

Bernard Henrissat

Affiliations CNRS UMR 7257, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France, INRA, USC 1408 AFMB, Marseille, France, Department of Biological Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Deborah A. Samac

caste007@umn.edu

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, USDA-ARS-Plant Science Research Unit, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CVC-M DAS. Performed the experiments: CVC-M. Analyzed the data: CVC-M JJG-G KEB MH BH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZJT. Wrote the paper: CVC-M. Edited the manuscript CVC-M DAS JJG-G ZJT KEB MH BH. Submitted the sequence data to GenBank: JJG-G CVC-M.