About the Authors

Mehdi Kabbage

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Brett Williams

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Martin B. Dickman

mbdickman@tamu.edu

Affiliations Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Center for Cell Death and Differentiation, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK MBD. Performed the experiments: MK. Analyzed the data: MK BW MBD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MBD. Wrote the paper: MK BW MBD.