About the Authors

Ivan D. Barrero Farfan

Affiliation Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Gerald N. De La Fuente

Current address: Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Seth C. Murray

sethmurray@tamu.edu

Affiliation Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Thomas Isakeit

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Pei-Cheng Huang

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Marilyn Warburton

Affiliation USDA ARS Corn Host Plant Resistance Research Unit, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

Paul Williams

Affiliation USDA ARS Corn Host Plant Resistance Research Unit, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

Gary L. Windham

Affiliation USDA ARS Corn Host Plant Resistance Research Unit, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

Mike Kolomiets

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IDBF GNDLF SCM TI MK. Performed the experiments: IDBF GNDLF SCM TI PCH MW PW MK GLW. Analyzed the data: IDBF MW SCM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IDBF GNDLF SCM TI PCH MW PW MK GLW. Wrote the paper: IDBF SCM MW PW MK TI.