About the Authors

Lulu Cai

Contributed equally to this work with: Lulu Cai, Mukesh Jain

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plant Pathology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Mukesh Jain

Contributed equally to this work with: Lulu Cai, Mukesh Jain

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

Affiliation Plant Pathology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Marta Sena-Vélez

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Kathryn M. Jones

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Laura A. Fleites

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USDA Agricultural Research Service, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Michelle Heck

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USDA Agricultural Research Service, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Dean W. Gabriel

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

dgabr@ufl.edu

Affiliation Plant Pathology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.