About the Authors

Hyong Woo Choi

Affiliation Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Murli Manohar

Affiliation Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Patricia Manosalva

Current address: Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Affiliation Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Miaoying Tian

Current address: Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Affiliation Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Magali Moreau

Affiliation Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Daniel F. Klessig

dfk8@cornell.edu

Affiliation Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HWC MMa PM MT MMo DFK. Performed the experiments: HWC MMa PM MT MMo. Analyzed the data: HWC MMa PM MT MMo DFK. Wrote the paper: HWC DFK.