About the Authors

Ganyu Gu

Ganyu Gu, ggu@ufl.edu (GG); ahcvanbruggen@ufl.edu (AHCvB)

Current address: Eastern Shore AREC, Virginia Tech, Painter, Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation Emerging Pathogens Institute and Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Juan M. Cevallos-Cevallos

Current address: Centro de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas del Ecuador, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Affiliation Emerging Pathogens Institute and Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Ariena H. C. van Bruggen

Ganyu Gu, ggu@ufl.edu (GG); ahcvanbruggen@ufl.edu (AHCvB)

Affiliation Emerging Pathogens Institute and Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GG AHCvB. Performed the experiments: GG. Analyzed the data: GG JMCC AHCvB. Wrote the paper: GG JMCC AHCvB.