About the Authors

Jizhou TANG

Contributed equally to this work with: Jizhou TANG, Yuanxi DING

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Horticulture and Forestry, Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology of Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Yuanxi DING

Contributed equally to this work with: Jizhou TANG, Yuanxi DING

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Horticulture and Forestry, Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology of Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Jing Nan

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation College of Horticulture and Forestry, Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology of Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Xiangyu YANG

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Horticulture and Forestry, Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology of Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Liang SUN

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Horticulture and Forestry, Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology of Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Xiuyun ZHAO

Roles Investigation

Affiliations College of life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Ling JIANG

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

jiangling@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Affiliations College of Horticulture and Forestry, Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology of Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, National Indoor Conservation Center of Virus-free Germplasm of Fruit Crops, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

Currently there is a patent application pending. The patent application name and number is 'Application of a biological agent in controlling the pathogen of citrus Huanglongbing disease in potting plants’ and application number: 201711375148.3, (中国国家专利局), the patent is during the review. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.