Irigoyen, Sonia http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0647-4808
Ramasamy, Manikandan
Pant, Shankar
Niraula, Prakash
Bedre, Renesh
Gurung, Meena
Rossi, Denise
Laughlin, Corinne
Gorman, Zachary http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8180-6003
Achor, Diann
Levy, Amit
Kolomiets, Michael V.
Sétamou, Mamoudou
Badillo-Vargas, Ismael E.
Avila, Carlos A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1969-4706
Irey, Michael S.
Mandadi, Kranthi K. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2986-4016
Funding for this research was provided by:
Texas A&M AgriLife Research Insect-Vectored Disease Seed Grant
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (2018-534299)
United States Department of Agriculture | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (2018-70016-28198)
Texas A&M AgriLife Research Insect-Vectored Disease Seed Grant
Article History
Received: 10 January 2020
Accepted: 26 October 2020
First Online: 16 November 2020
Competing interests
: The Texas A&M University System has filed patent applications for the microbial hairy root system [15/353,645 and 16/54,178, status pending]. K.K.M., S.I., M.R., S.P., and P.N. are co-inventors on the related disclosures and patents. Southern Gardens Citrus (Clewiston, FL) has licensed rights in these patents and patent applications from The Texas A&M University System. A disclosure of invention for the compounds screened using this system and a U.S. provisional patent application (63031962) has been submitted. Southern Gardens Citrus also provided matching funds to the Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research New Innovator Award (2018-534,299) to K.K.M. Co-author M.S.I. (Director of Research and Business Development, Southern Gardens Citrus) contributed to the study design for screening antimicrobial peptides, data analysis, and preparation of the manuscript. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.