About the Authors

Qing-Ming Qin

qqin@ag.tamu.edu (Q-MQ); pjdefigueiredo@tamu.edu (PdF)

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Jianwu Pei

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Veronica Ancona

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Brian D. Shaw

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Thomas A. Ficht

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Faculty of Genetics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Paul de Figueiredo

qqin@ag.tamu.edu (Q-MQ); pjdefigueiredo@tamu.edu (PdF)

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Faculty of Genetics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Professional Program in Biotechnology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Faculty of Molecular and Environmental Plant Systems, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QMQ TAF PdF. Performed the experiments: QMQ JP VA. Analyzed the data: QMQ PdF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QMQ BDS TAF PdF. Wrote the paper: QMQ PdF.