About the Authors

Xiao-Feng Liu

These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, Key Laboratory of Crop Pest Management on the Northwest Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Xiang-Shun Hu

These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, Key Laboratory of Crop Pest Management on the Northwest Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Mike A. Keller

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Crop Pest Management on the Northwest Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Waite Campus, the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Hui-Yan Zhao

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, Key Laboratory of Crop Pest Management on the Northwest Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Yun-Feng Wu

wuyf@nwsuaf.edu.cn (YFW); txliu@nwsuaf.edu.cn (TXL)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, Key Laboratory of Crop Pest Management on the Northwest Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Tong-Xian Liu

wuyf@nwsuaf.edu.cn (YFW); txliu@nwsuaf.edu.cn (TXL)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, Key Laboratory of Crop Pest Management on the Northwest Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YFW XFL XSH. Performed the experiments: XFL XSH. Analyzed the data: XSH XFL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HYZ MAK YFW TXL. Wrote the paper: XFL XSH. Improved the English of the manuscript: TXL MAK.