About the Authors

Sandeep R. Marla

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Kevin Chu

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Satya Chintamanani

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Syngenta, Slater, Iowa, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Dilbag S. Multani

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation DowDuPont, Johnston, Iowa, United States of America

Antje Klempien

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

Current address: KeyGene USA, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Alyssa DeLeon

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: DowDuPont, Johnston, Iowa, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Kim Bong-suk

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Larry D. Dunkle

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Brian P. Dilkes

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Gurmukh S. Johal

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gjohal@purdue.edu

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the following authors of this manuscript have the following affiliations: SC is now employed by Syngenta; DSM is now employed by DowDuPont; AK is now employed by KeyGene USA; AD is now employed by DowDuPont. However, none of these companies had any direct connection with this study, and neither any real or in-kind support to facilitate the work reported in this manuscript. There are no competing interests of any kind between any of the authors and this manuscript. This includes the four authors who are currently employed by commercial companies.