About the Authors

Roslyn D. Noar

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695-7616, United States of America

Margaret E. Daub

margaret_daub@ncsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695-7612, United States of America

Competing Interests

Partial funding for this project was obtained from Dole Food Company to support a graduate assistantship. This funding does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MED RDN. Performed the experiments: RDN. Analyzed the data: RDN MED. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MED RDN. Wrote the paper: RDN MED.