About the Authors

Shao-Hua Gu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Liang Sun

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests (Ministry of Education), College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Ruo-Nan Yang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Kong-Ming Wu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Yu-Yuan Guo

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Xian-Chun Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Jing-Jiang Zhou

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry and Crop Protection, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom

Yong-Jun Zhang

yjzhang@ippcaas.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SHG YJZ JJZ. Analyzed the data: SHG KMW YYG XCL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SHG. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SHG YJZ JJZ. Performed the sample collection, library construction, data processing, bioinformatics analysis and qRT-PCR: SHG. Performed the RT-PCR: LS RNY.