About the Authors

Zhao Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhao Peng, Ely Oliveira-Garcia

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Ely Oliveira-Garcia

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhao Peng, Ely Oliveira-Garcia

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America

Guifang Lin

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America

Ying Hu

Roles Formal analysis

Current address: Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America

Melinda Dalby

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America

Pierre Migeon

Roles Formal analysis

Current address: 42 Silicon Valley, Fremont, CA, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America

Haibao Tang

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Center for Genomics and Biotechnology and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fujian, China

Mark Farman

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

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

David Cook

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America

Frank F. White

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Barbara Valent

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

bvalent@ksu.edu (BV); liu3zhen@ksu.edu (SL)

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America

Sanzhen Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

bvalent@ksu.edu (BV); liu3zhen@ksu.edu (SL)

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.