Funding for this research was provided by:
Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station (ALA021-1-15016)
Article History
Received: 25 March 2020
Accepted: 8 December 2020
First Online: 26 February 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors do not have any conflicts of interests or competing interests.
: All authors approved of this manuscript prior to submission.
: All data generated is available for distribution and genome sequences deposited for public access.
: The authors had approval to conduct research with pathogens as these experiments were covered under a biological use authorization by Auburn University’s Institutional Biosafety Committee. No vertebrate animals nor human subjects were used in this study. The study was conducted under the ethical guidelines described by this journal.