About the Authors

Ruihua Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruihua Li, Xiaotong Jiang, Donghao Jin

Affiliation College of Plant Science, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Xiaotong Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruihua Li, Xiaotong Jiang, Donghao Jin

Affiliation College of Plant Science, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Donghao Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruihua Li, Xiaotong Jiang, Donghao Jin

Affiliation College of Plant Science, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Sangeeta Dhaubhadel

Affiliation Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, London, Ontario, Canada

Shaomin Bian

shmbian@jlu.edu.cn (SB); xuyanli@jlu.edu.cn (XL)

Affiliation College of Plant Science, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Xuyan Li

shmbian@jlu.edu.cn (SB); xuyanli@jlu.edu.cn (XL)

Affiliation College of Plant Science, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Competing Interests

SD is an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB XL RL XJ DJ. Performed the experiments: RL XJ DJ. Analyzed the data: SB XL RL XJ DJ SD. Wrote the paper: SB XL SD.