Cellular insights of beech leaf disease reveal abnormal ectopic cell division of symptomatic interveinal leaf areas

• Paulo Vieira ,

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

  * E-mail: paulo.vieira@usda.gov

  Affiliation Mycology and Nematology Genetic Diversity and Biology Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5627-2628

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• Mihail R. Kantor,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Andrew Jansen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Electron and Confocal Microscopy Unit, United States Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6289-6541

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• Zafar A. Handoo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mycology and Nematology Genetic Diversity and Biology Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Jonathan D. Eisenback

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Plant and Environmental Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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