About the Authors

Lijie Ma

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Taicheng Road 3, Yangling 712100, China

Jiaxing Qiao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Taicheng Road 3, Yangling 712100, China

Xinyu Kong

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Taicheng Road 3, Yangling 712100, China

Yiping Zou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Taicheng Road 3, Yangling 712100, China

Xiangming Xu

Affiliation East Malling Research, New Road, East Malling, ME19 6BJ, Kent, United Kingdom

Xianming Chen

Affiliation Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture and Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6430, United States of America

Xiaoping Hu

xphu@nwsuaf.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Taicheng Road 3, Yangling 712100, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XH. Performed the experiments: LM JQ XK YZ. Analyzed the data: XX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XH. Wrote the paper: XH LM XC XX. Contributed review of the paper: XC XX.