About the Authors

Wenting Liu

Affiliations College of Life Sciences, Northwest A & F University, Shaanxi, China, Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, Canada

Zongsuo Liang

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Northwest A & F University, Shaanxi, China

Xinhua Wang

Affiliation Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, Canada

Susan Sibbald

Affiliation Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, Canada

David Hunter

Affiliation Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Vineland Station, Ontario, Canada

Lining Tian

lining.tian@agr.gc.ca

Affiliation Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LT WL ZL. Performed the experiments: WL SS XW LT. Analyzed the data: WL DH ZL XW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WL SS XW LT. Wrote the paper: WL LT DH.