About the Authors

Ekaterina Smirnova

Affiliation Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes CNRS-UPR 2357, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Andrew E. Firth

aef24@cam.ac.uk (AEF); wamiller@iastate.edu (WAM); veronique.ziegler-graff@ibmp-cnrs.unistra.fr (VZG)

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

W. Allen Miller

aef24@cam.ac.uk (AEF); wamiller@iastate.edu (WAM); veronique.ziegler-graff@ibmp-cnrs.unistra.fr (VZG)

Affiliations Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes CNRS-UPR 2357, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Danièle Scheidecker

Affiliation Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes CNRS-UPR 2357, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Véronique Brault

Affiliation UMR 1131 SVQV INRA-UDS, Colmar, France

Catherine Reinbold

Affiliation UMR 1131 SVQV INRA-UDS, Colmar, France

Aurélie M. Rakotondrafara

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Betty Y.-W. Chung

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Véronique Ziegler-Graff

aef24@cam.ac.uk (AEF); wamiller@iastate.edu (WAM); veronique.ziegler-graff@ibmp-cnrs.unistra.fr (VZG)

Affiliation Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes CNRS-UPR 2357, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES AEF VZG WAM. Performed the experiments: ES DS VZG WAM. Analyzed the data: AEF ES VZG WAM VB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AEF VB. Wrote the paper: AEF WAM VZG VB ES. Performed bioinformatics: AEF. Performed preliminary studies: AMR BYWC. Purified virus and performed ISEM: CR VB.