About the Authors

Prakash M. Niraula

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Current address: Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Texas A&M AgriLife Research & Extension Center, Texas A&M University, Weslaco, TX, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States of America

Keshav Sharma

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Current address: USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States of America

Brant T. McNeece

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Current address: USDA-ARS, Soybean & Nitrogen Fixation Unit, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States of America

Hallie A. Troell

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States of America

Omar Darwish

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX, United States of America

Nadim W. Alkharouf

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

Affiliation Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Towson University, Towson, MD, United States of America

Katherine S. Lawrence

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States of America

Vincent P. Klink

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

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Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States of America, Center for Computational Sciences High Performance Computing Collaboratory, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, United States of America

Competing Interests

No authors have competing interests. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.