About the Authors

Leilani G. Sumabat

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Robert C. Kemerait Jr.

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

Dong Kyun Kim

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

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

Yeshwant R. Mehta

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto Agronômico do Paraná-IAPAR, Londrina, Brazil

Marin T. Brewer

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mtbrewer@uga.edu

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

Competing Interests

This study was funded by Cotton Incorporated contract 14-280 to M.T.B. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This commercial funding does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.