About the Authors

Bing-Huo Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Bing-Huo Zhang, Nimaichand Salam

Affiliations College of Life Science, Jiujiang University, Jiujiang, PR China, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, PR China

Nimaichand Salam

Contributed equally to this work with: Bing-Huo Zhang, Nimaichand Salam

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, PR China

Juan Cheng

Affiliations College of Life Science, Jiujiang University, Jiujiang, PR China, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, PR China

Han-Quan Li

Affiliation College of Life Science, Jiujiang University, Jiujiang, PR China

Jian-Yuan Yang

Affiliation College of Life Science, Jiujiang University, Jiujiang, PR China

Dai-Ming Zha

Affiliation College of Life Science, Jiujiang University, Jiujiang, PR China

Yu-Qin Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, PR China

Meng-Jie Ai

Affiliation Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, PR China

Wael N. Hozzein

Affiliations Bioproducts Research Chair (BRC), Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Eqypt

Wen-Jun Li

liwenjun3@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BHZ WJL. Performed the experiments: BHZ NS JC HQL JYY DMZ MJA. Analyzed the data: BHZ NS WNH WJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BHZ HQL YQZ WJL. Wrote the paper: BHZ NS WNH YQZ WJL.