About the Authors

Jinita Sthapit Kandel

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, United States Department of Agriculture -Agricultural Research Service, Crop Improvement and Protection Research Unit, Salinas, California, United States of America

Vandhana Krishnan

Affiliations Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, Stanford Center for Genomics & Personalized Medicine, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Derick Jiwan

Affiliation Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Xianming Chen

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Daniel Z. Skinner

Affiliations Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Deven R. See

deven_see@wsu.edu

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Wheat Health, Genetics, and Quality Research Unit, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DRS XMC. Data curation: DZS VK. Formal analysis: JSK DZS VK DRS. Funding acquisition: DRS. Investigation: JSK DJ DRS. Methodology: DRS XMC JSK. Project administration: DRS. Resources: DRS XMC. Software: DZS VK. Supervision: DRS. Validation: DRS XMC. Visualization: JSK. Writing – original draft: JSK. Writing – review & editing: DRS XMC DZS.