About the Authors

Huaiyong Luo

Affiliations College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Xiaojie Wang

kangzs@nwsuaf.edu.cn (ZK); wangxiaojie@nwsuaf.edu.cn (XW)

Affiliations College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Gangming Zhan

Affiliations College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Guorong Wei

Affiliations College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Xinli Zhou

Affiliations College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Jing Zhao

Affiliations College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Lili Huang

Affiliations College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Zhensheng Kang

kangzs@nwsuaf.edu.cn (ZK); wangxiaojie@nwsuaf.edu.cn (XW)

Affiliations College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HL XW LH ZK. Performed the experiments: HL. Analyzed the data: HL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GZ GW XZ JZ. Wrote the paper: HL XW ZK. Prepare the PST isolates: GZ GW. Contributed the preparation of reagents and Qiagen system: JZ XZ.