About the Authors

Guotian Li

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

Xiaoying Zhou

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

Lingan Kong

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

Yuling Wang

Affiliation College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shanxi, China

Haifeng Zhang

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

Heng Zhu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Thomas K. Mitchell

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

Ralph A. Dean

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Jin-Rong Xu

jinrong@purdue.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HZ TKM RAD J-RX. Performed the experiments: GL XZ LK YW HZ. Analyzed the data: J-RX TKM RAD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL HZ. Wrote the paper: GL HZ J-RX.