A Ralstonia solanacearum type III effector alters the actin and microtubule cytoskeleton to promote bacterial virulence in plants

• Rachel Hiles ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rachel Hiles, Abigail Rogers

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

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

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• Abigail Rogers ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rachel Hiles, Abigail Rogers

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, and Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, EMBRIO Institute, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Namrata Jaiswal,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Crop Production and Pest Control Research Unit, USDA-ARS: USDA Agricultural Research Service, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Weiwei Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, and Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, EMBRIO Institute, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Jules Butchacas,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Marcus V. Merfa,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Taylor Klass,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Pragya Barua,

  Roles Investigation

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

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• Venkatesh P. Thirumalaikumar,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, and Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Jonathan M. Jacobs,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Christopher J. Staiger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, and Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, EMBRIO Institute, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Matthew Helm,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Crop Production and Pest Control Research Unit, USDA-ARS: USDA Agricultural Research Service, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Anjali S. Iyer-Pascuzzi

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

  * E-mail: asi2@purdue.edu

  Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, and Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, EMBRIO Institute, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5356-4350

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