About the Authors

Jing-Yi Lin

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Venugopal Mendu

Contributed equally to this work with: Venugopal Mendu, Judit Pogany

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Judit Pogany

Contributed equally to this work with: Venugopal Mendu, Judit Pogany

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Jun Qin

Current address: College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Peter D. Nagy

pdnagy2@uky.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JYL JP PDN. Performed the experiments: JYL VM JQ. Analyzed the data: JYL VM PDN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VM JP. Wrote the paper: JYL PDN.