About the Authors

Elena García-Cano

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Shimpei Magori

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Qi Sun

Affiliation Computational Biology Service Unit, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Zehong Ding

Affiliation Computational Biology Service Unit, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Sondra G. Lazarowitz

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Vitaly Citovsky

vitaly.citovsky@stonybrook.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EGC SM VC. Performed the experiments: EGC SM. Analyzed the data: EGC SM QS ZD SGL VC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EGC SM. Wrote the paper: EGC SGL VC.