About the Authors

Jessica L. Henty-Ridilla

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Masaki Shimono

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Jiejie Li

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Jeff H. Chang

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, and Molecular and Cellular Biology Program and Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Brad Day

bday@msu.edu (BD); staiger@purdue.edu (CJS)

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Christopher J. Staiger

bday@msu.edu (BD); staiger@purdue.edu (CJS)

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Bindley Bioscience Center, Discovery Park, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JLHR MS JHC BD CJS. Performed the experiments: JLHR MS JL. Analyzed the data: JLHR MS JL. Wrote the paper: JLHR CJS.