About the Authors

Huiquan Liu

Current address: Purdue-NWAFU Joint Research Center, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China

Yanping Fu

Affiliation The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China

Jiatao Xie

Affiliation The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China

Jiasen Cheng

Affiliation The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China

Said A. Ghabrial

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Guoqing Li

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China

Xianhong Yi

Affiliation The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China

Daohong Jiang

daohongjiang@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HL YF DJ. Performed the experiments: HL. Analyzed the data: HL YF DJ SAG GL JX JC XY. Wrote the paper: HL YF DJ SAG.