About the Authors

Zhao Zhang

Affiliations Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yin Song

Affiliation Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Chun-Ming Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Bart P. H. J. Thomma

bart.thomma@wur.nl

Affiliation Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZZ YS CML BPHJT. Performed the experiments: ZZ YS. Analyzed the data: ZZ YS BPHJT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YS. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: ZZ BPHJT.