About the Authors
- Chong Zhang
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Qiguang Xie
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
- Ryan G. Anderson
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Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Gina Ng
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Nicholas C. Seitz
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Thomas Peterson
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- C. Robertson McClung
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
- John M. McDowell
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Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Dongdong Kong
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
- June M. Kwak
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Affiliations Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Plant Molecular Systems Biotechnology and Crop Biotech Institute, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Republic of Korea
- Hua Lu
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* E-mail: hualu@umbc.edu
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HL. Performed the experiments: CZ QX RGA GN NCS TP DK HL. Analyzed the data: CZ QX RGA GN NCS TP CRM JMM DK JMK HL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CRM JMM JMK HL. Wrote the paper: CZ CRM HL. Pseudomonas infection assays: CZ HL. Hpa infection assays: RGA JMM. Clock activity assays: QX CRM. Stomatal assays: CZ DK. Bioinformatic analysis: NCS TP HL. Northern blotting: GN HL. Salicylic acid analysis: CZ HL.