About the Authors

Guan-Feng Wang

gwang11@ncsu.edu (GFW); peter.balint-kurti@ars.usda.gov (PJBK)

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Jiabing Ji

Affiliation Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Farid EI-Kasmi

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jeffery L. Dangl

Affiliation Department of Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Guri Johal

Affiliation Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Peter J. Balint-Kurti

gwang11@ncsu.edu (GFW); peter.balint-kurti@ars.usda.gov (PJBK)

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, USDA-ARS Plant Science Research Unit, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GFW JJ JLD GJ PJBK. Performed the experiments: GFW JJ FEK. Analyzed the data: GFW JJ GJ FEK PJBK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GFW PJBK. Wrote the paper: GFW FEK PJBK.