About the Authors

Brenda A. Peterson

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

David C. Haak

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Marc T. Nishimura

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

Paulo J. P. L. Teixeira

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

Sean R. James

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Jeffery L. Dangl

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America, Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

Zachary L. Nimchuk

zackn@email.unc.edu

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America, Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ZLN DCH BAP. Data curation: BAP DCH. Formal analysis: BAP DCH. Funding acquisition: ZLN DCH JLD. Investigation: BAP DCH SRJ. Methodology: ZLN DCH BAP. Project administration: ZLN. Resources: PJPLT MTN JLD. Supervision: DCH ZLN. Visualization: BAP DCH ZLN. Writing – original draft: ZLN BAP DCH ZLN. Writing – review & editing: ZLN BAP DCH.