About the Authors

Chong Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Qiguang Xie

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Ryan G. Anderson

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Gina Ng

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Nicholas C. Seitz

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Thomas Peterson

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

C. Robertson McClung

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

John M. McDowell

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Dongdong Kong

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

June M. Kwak

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

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.