About the Authors

Vamsi J. Nalam

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

vamsi.nalam@colostate.edu (VJN); punya.nachappa@colostate.edu (PN)

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Jinlong Han

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

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

William Jacob Pitt

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

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Shailesh Raj Acharya

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Punya Nachappa

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

vamsi.nalam@colostate.edu (VJN); punya.nachappa@colostate.edu (PN)

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.