About the Authors

Ruisheng An

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, 2505 E. J. Chapman Drive, Knoxville, TN, 37996, United States of America

Parwinder S. Grewal

pgrewal@utk.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, 2505 E. J. Chapman Drive, Knoxville, TN, 37996, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RA PSG. Performed the experiments: RA. Analyzed the data: RA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PSG. Wrote the paper: RA PSG.