About the Authors

Zhaohui Liu

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America

Zengcui Zhang

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America

Justin D. Faris

Affiliation Northern Crop Science Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America

Richard P. Oliver

Affiliation Department of Environment & Agriculture, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

Robert Syme

Affiliation Department of Environment & Agriculture, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

Megan C. McDonald

Affiliation Plant Pathology Group, Institute of Integrative Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

Bruce A. McDonald

Affiliation Plant Pathology Group, Institute of Integrative Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

Peter S. Solomon

Affiliation Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Shunwen Lu

Affiliation Northern Crop Science Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America

Weilin L. Shelver

Affiliation Biosciences Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America

Steven Xu

Affiliation Northern Crop Science Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America

Timothy L. Friesen

timothy.friesen@ars.usda.gov

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America, Northern Crop Science Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZL RPO BAM TLF. Performed the experiments: ZL ZZ RS MCM. Analyzed the data: ZL ZZ RS JDF MCM BAM SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PSS WLS SX. Wrote the paper: ZL TLF.