About the Authors

Chingkai Chuang

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Daniel Barajas

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Jun Qin

Current address: College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China.

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Peter D. Nagy

pdnagy2@uky.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC DB PDN. Performed the experiments: CC DB JQ. Analyzed the data: CC DB PDN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC DB JQ. Wrote the paper: CC DB PDN.