About the Authors

Wilfried Jonkers

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, USDA-ARS, Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Yanhong Dong

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Karen Broz

Affiliation USDA-ARS, Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

H. Corby Kistler

hckist@umn.edu

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, USDA-ARS, Cereal Disease Laboratory, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WJ HCK. Performed the experiments: WJ YD KB. Analyzed the data: WJ YD KB HCK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HCK. Wrote the paper: WJ HCK.