About the Authors

Yuan Qin

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Alexander R. Leydon

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Ann Manziello

Affiliation Arizona Cancer Center and Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Ritu Pandey

Affiliation Arizona Cancer Center and Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

David Mount

Affiliation Arizona Cancer Center and Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Stojan Denic

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Bane Vasic

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Mark A. Johnson

Mark_Johnson_1@brown.edu (MAJ); rpalaniv@ag.arizona.edu (RP)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Ravishankar Palanivelu

Mark_Johnson_1@brown.edu (MAJ); rpalaniv@ag.arizona.edu (RP)

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Yuan Qin, Alexander R. Leydon, Mark A. Johnson, Ravishankar Palanivelu. Performed the experiments: Yuan Qin, Alexander R. Leydon. Analyzed the data: Yuan Qin, Alexander R. Leydon, Ann Manziello, Ravishankar Palanivelu, David Mount, Stojan Denic, Bane Vasic, Mark A. Johnson, Ritu Pandey. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Mark A. Johnson, Ravishankar Palanivelu. Wrote the paper: Yuan Qin, Alexander R. Leydon, Mark A. Johnson, Ravishankar Palanivelu. Coordinated the study and served as the liaison among the authors: Ravishankar Palanivelu.