Transcriptome analysis under pecan scab infection reveals the molecular mechanisms of the defense response in pecans

• Gaurab Bhattarai,

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

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics & Genomics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Hormat Shadgou Rhein,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology and Weed Science, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Avinash Sreedasyam,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genome Sequencing Center, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America

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• John T. Lovell,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Genome Sequencing Center, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America, US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Sameer Khanal,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics & Genomics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia-Tifton Campus, Tifton, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3342-0381

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• Jane Grimwood,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genome Sequencing Center, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America

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• Jeremy Schmutz,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Genome Sequencing Center, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America, US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Jerry Jenkins,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genome Sequencing Center, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America

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• Peng W. Chee,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics & Genomics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia-Tifton Campus, Tifton, Georgia, United States of America

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• Cristina Pisani,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Southeastern Fruit and Tree Nut Research Station, Byron, Georgia, United States of America

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• Jennifer Randall,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology and Weed Science, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Patrick J. Conner

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

  * E-mail: pconner@uga.edu

  Affiliations Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics & Genomics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Horticulture, University of Georgia-Tifton Campus, Tifton, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7889-0512

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