About the Authors

Melania Abrahamian

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Audrey M. V. Ah-Fong

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Carol Davis

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Kalina Andreeva

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Howard S. Judelson

Howard.Judelson@ucr.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MA AMVAF CD HSJ. Formal analysis: MA AMVAF CD HSJ. Funding acquisition: HSJ. Investigation: MA AMVAF CD KA HSJ. Project administration: HSJ. Supervision: HSJ. Validation: MA AMVAF KA HSJ. Visualization: MA AMVAF HSJ. Writing – original draft: MA HSJ. Writing – review & editing: MA AMVAF HSJ.