About the Authors

Souvik Bhattacharjee

Contributed equally to this work with: Souvik Bhattacharjee, N. Luisa Hiller

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Microbiology and Immunology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

N. Luisa Hiller

Contributed equally to this work with: Souvik Bhattacharjee, N. Luisa Hiller

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Microbiology and Immunology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Konstantinos Liolios

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Microbiology and Immunology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Joe Win

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America

Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America

Carolyn Young

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America

Sophien Kamoun

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America

Kasturi Haldar

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: k-haldar@northwestern.edu

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Microbiology and Immunology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SB, NLH, SK, and KH conceived and designed the experiments. SB, NLH, KL, JW, TDK, and CY performed the experiments. SB, NLH, KL, JW, TDK, CY, SK, and KH analyzed the data. SB, NLH, SK, and KH wrote the paper.