Engineering Cercospora disease resistance via expression of Cercospora nicotianae cercosporin-resistance genes and silencing of cercosporin production in tobacco

• Elizabeth Thomas,

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

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8471-2608

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• Sonia Herrero,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

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• Hayde Eng,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Elo Life Systems, Durham, NC, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

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• Nafisa Gomaa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America, Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Fayoum University, Al Fayoum, Egypt

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• Jeff Gillikin,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

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• Roslyn Noar,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: NSF Center for Integrated Pest Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

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• Aydin Beseli,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

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• Margaret E. Daub

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

  * E-mail: margaret_daub@ncsu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4292-3949

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