About the Authors

Elizabeth K. Brauer

Contributed equally to this work with: Elizabeth K. Brauer, George V. Popescu, Dharmendra K. Singh

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Ottawa Research and Development Center, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Affiliation The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

George V. Popescu

Contributed equally to this work with: Elizabeth K. Brauer, George V. Popescu, Dharmendra K. Singh

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

Affiliations Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing, and Biotechnology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America, The National Institute for Laser, Plasma & Radiation Physics, Bucharest, Romania

Dharmendra K. Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Elizabeth K. Brauer, George V. Popescu, Dharmendra K. Singh

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Current address: HM. Clause, Davis, California, United States of America

Affiliation The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Mauricio Calviño

Roles Investigation

Affiliation The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Kamala Gupta

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Botany, Government General Degree College, Singur, West Bengal, India

Affiliation The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Bhaskar Gupta

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Zoology, Government General Degree College, Singur, West Bengal, India

Affiliation The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Suma Chakravarthy

Roles Investigation

Current address: CropLife International, Washington DC, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Sorina C. Popescu

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

scp319@msstate.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.