Cell-length heterogeneity: a population-level solution to growth/virulence trade-offs in the plant pathogen Dickeya dadantii

• Zhouqi Cui,

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

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Ching-Hong Yang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Roshni R. Kharadi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-8578

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• Xiaochen Yuan,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• George W. Sundin,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4078-8368

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• Lindsay R. Triplett,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5560-9257

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• Jie Wang,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

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• Quan Zeng

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

  * E-mail: Quan.Zeng@ct.gov

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5052-402X

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