About the Authors

Xiu-Hong Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiu-Hong Lu, Shi-Qi An

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, and College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, People’s Republic of China

Shi-Qi An

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiu-Hong Lu, Shi-Qi An

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, and College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, People’s Republic of China, Department of Microbiology, BioSciences Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Dong-Jie Tang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, and College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, People’s Republic of China

Yvonne McCarthy

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, BioSciences Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Ji-Liang Tang

m.dow@ucc.ie (JMD); jltang@gxu.edu.cn (JLT)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, and College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, People’s Republic of China

John Maxwell Dow

m.dow@ucc.ie (JMD); jltang@gxu.edu.cn (JLT)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, BioSciences Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Robert P. Ryan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, BioSciences Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RPR JMD DJT. Performed the experiments: XL SA YM RPR. Analyzed the data: XL SA YM RPR JMD DJT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XL SA YM RPR JMD DJT JLT. Wrote the paper: SA YM RPR JMD DJT.