About the Authors

Chien-Ming Chou

Contributed equally to this work with: Chien-Ming Chou, Fang-Yi Yu

Current Address: Plant Pathology Division, Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Wufong, Taichung, Taiwan.

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Fang-Yi Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chien-Ming Chou, Fang-Yi Yu

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, NCHU-UCD Plant and Food Biotechnology Center, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Pei-Ling Yu

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, NCHU-UCD Plant and Food Biotechnology Center, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Jia-Fang Ho

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, NCHU-UCD Plant and Food Biotechnology Center, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Richard M. Bostock

Affiliations NCHU-UCD Plant and Food Biotechnology Center, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Kuang-Ren Chung

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Jenn-Wen Huang

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, NCHU-UCD Plant and Food Biotechnology Center, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Miin-Huey Lee

mhlee@nchu.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, NCHU-UCD Plant and Food Biotechnology Center, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Agricultural Biotechnology Center, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MHL CMC FYY PLY. Performed the experiments: CMC FYY PLY JFH. Analyzed the data: CMC FYY PLY JFH MHL RMB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHL RMB KRC JWH. Wrote the paper: CMC MHL RMB KRC.