About the Authors

Claudia Castro

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia Castro, Biagio DiSalvo

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

Biagio DiSalvo

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia Castro, Biagio DiSalvo

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

M. Caroline Roper

mcroper@ucr.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.