About the Authors

Xiaogang Wu

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Jiucheng Liu

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Wei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Liqun Zhang

zhanglq@cau.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XGW LQZ. Performed the experiments: XGW JCL WZ. Analyzed the data: XGW LQZ. Wrote the paper: XGW LQZ.