Endophytic Metarhizium robertsii suppresses the phytopathogen, Cochliobolus heterostrophus and modulates maize defenses

• Imtiaz Ahmad ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: meb34@psu.edu (MEB); imt849@gmail.com (IA)

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9534-5498

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• María del Mar Jiménez-Gasco,

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

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Dawn S. Luthe,

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

  Affiliation Department of Plant Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Mary E. Barbercheck

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

  * E-mail: meb34@psu.edu (MEB); imt849@gmail.com (IA)

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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