About the Authors

Muhammad Shah Nawaz-ul-Rehman

Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Shah Nawaz-ul-Rehman, K. Reddisiva Prasanth, Kai Xu, Zsuzsanna Sasvari

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

K. Reddisiva Prasanth

Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Shah Nawaz-ul-Rehman, K. Reddisiva Prasanth, Kai Xu, Zsuzsanna Sasvari

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

Kai Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Shah Nawaz-ul-Rehman, K. Reddisiva Prasanth, Kai Xu, Zsuzsanna Sasvari

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

Zsuzsanna Sasvari

Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Shah Nawaz-ul-Rehman, K. Reddisiva Prasanth, Kai Xu, Zsuzsanna Sasvari

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

Nikolay Kovalev

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

Isabel Fernández de Castro Martín

Affiliation Cell Structure Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

Daniel Barajas

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

Cristina Risco

Affiliation Cell Structure Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

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: MSN KRP ZS KX DB IFdCM PDN. Performed the experiments: MSN KRP ZS KX NK IFdCM. Analyzed the data: MSN KRP ZS KX NK IFdCM CR PDN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSN KRP ZS KX NK DB. Wrote the paper: MSN KRP ZS KX NK IFdCM CR PDN.