About the Authors

Huirong Dong

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, MOA, Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Delin Wang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, MOA, Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Zhijing Bai

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, MOA, Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Yuge Yuan

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, MOA, Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Wei Yang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, MOA, Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Yuexia Zhang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation State Key Lab Plant Physiology & Biochemistry, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Hanwen Ni

Roles Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, MOA, Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Linjian Jiang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

jianglinjian@gmail.com

Affiliation Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, MOA, Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

A patent, entitled “A method to create mutant library” (Application Number 201810329683.3) was filed to patent office in Beijing, China. It has not been awarded. China Agricultural University owned this patent. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.