About the Authors

Ibrahim El-Shesheny

Contributed equally to this work with: Ibrahim El-Shesheny, Subhas Hajeri

Affiliations Department of Entomology and Nematology, Citrus Research and Education Center, IFAS, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, Florida, United States of America, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

Subhas Hajeri

Contributed equally to this work with: Ibrahim El-Shesheny, Subhas Hajeri

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Citrus Research and Education Center, IFAS, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, Florida, United States of America

Ibrahim El-Hawary

Affiliation Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

Siddarame Gowda

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Citrus Research and Education Center, IFAS, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, Florida, United States of America

Nabil Killiny

nabilkilliny@ufl.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Nematology, Citrus Research and Education Center, IFAS, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NK SG. Performed the experiments: IEs SH. Analyzed the data: NK IEs IEh. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NK IEs SH. Wrote the paper: NK IEs SG IEh.