About the Authors

Suomeng Dong

Contributed equally to this work with: Suomeng Dong, Dan Yu

Affiliations Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Dan Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Suomeng Dong, Dan Yu

Affiliations Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Linkai Cui

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Dinah Qutob

Affiliation Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, Canada

Jennifer Tedman-Jones

Affiliation Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, Canada

Shiv D. Kale

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Brett M. Tyler

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Yuanchao Wang

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Mark Gijzen

mark.gijzen@agr.gc.ca

Affiliation Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD BMT YW MG. Performed the experiments: SD DY LC DQ JT-J SK. Analyzed the data: SD DY SK BMT MG. Wrote the paper: SD DY MG.