About the Authors
- Bin Xu
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Affiliation Department of Horticulture, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh
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Affiliation Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Yuhong Tang
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Affiliations Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America, BESC – The BioEnergy Science Center of U.S. Department of Energy, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Michael K. Udvardi
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Affiliations Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America, BESC – The BioEnergy Science Center of U.S. Department of Energy, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Ji-Yi Zhang
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Affiliations Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America, BESC – The BioEnergy Science Center of U.S. Department of Energy, Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States of America
- Zhengxing Shen
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Affiliation Department of Horticulture, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Maria Balota
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Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Plant Physiology and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Kim Harich
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Percival Y.-H. Zhang
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Affiliation Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Bingyu Zhao
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* E-mail: bzhao07@vt.edu
Affiliation Department of Horticulture, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BX BZ. Performed the experiments: BX BZ NS JZ ZS KH. Analyzed the data: BX BZ MU YT MB PZ. Wrote the paper: BX BZ.