About the Authors

David Jespersen

Contributed equally to this work with: David Jespersen, Jingjin Yu

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States of America

Jingjin Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: David Jespersen, Jingjin Yu

Affiliation College of Agro-Grassland Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, P.R. China

Bingru Huang

huang@aesop.rutgers.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BH DJ. Performed the experiments: DJ JY. Analyzed the data: DJ JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BH. Wrote the paper: DJ JY BH.