About the Authors

Mireille van Damme

Affiliations The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom, Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Tolga O. Bozkurt

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

Cahid Cakir

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, The Plant Stress and Germplasm Development Unit, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Sebastian Schornack

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

Jan Sklenar

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

Alexandra M. E. Jones

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

Sophien Kamoun

sophien.kamoun@tsl.ac.uk

Affiliation The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MvD TOB CC SS AMEJ SK. Performed the experiments: MvD TOB CC SS JS AMEJ. Analyzed the data: MvD TOB CC SS JS AMEJ SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MvD TOB CC SS JS AMEJ SK. Wrote the paper: MvD AMEJ SK.