About the Authors

Wenjun Zhu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China

Wei Wei

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China

Yanping Fu

Affiliation The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China

Jiasen Cheng

Affiliation The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China

Jiatao Xie

Affiliation The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China

Guoqing Li

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China

Xianhong Yi

Affiliation The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China

Zhensheng Kang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Martin B. Dickman

Affiliation Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Daohong Jiang

daohongjiang@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China, The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WZ YF DJ. Performed the experiments: WZ WW. Analyzed the data: WZ WW YF JC JX GL XY ZK MBD DJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YF GL ZK JC JX XY DJ. Wrote the paper: WZ YF MBD DJ.