About the Authors

Nikolay Kovalev

Contributed equally to this work with: Nikolay Kovalev, Jun-ichi Inaba

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Jun-ichi Inaba

Contributed equally to this work with: Nikolay Kovalev, Jun-ichi Inaba

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Zhenghe Li

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Institute of Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China

Peter D. Nagy

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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.