About the Authors

Lindsay C. DeMers

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Neelam R. Redekar

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Affiliation School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Aardra Kachroo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Virginia, United States of America

Sue A. Tolin

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Song Li

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

M. A. Saghai Maroof

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

smaroof@vt.edu

Affiliation School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.