About the Authors

Roslyn D. Noar

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: NSF Center for Integrated Pest Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Elizabeth Thomas

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

De-Yu Xie

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Morgan E. Carter

Roles Investigation

Current address: Plant Pathology and Plant Microbe Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

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

Dongming Ma

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Current address: Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

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

Margaret E. Daub

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

margaret_daub@ncsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 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.