About the Authors

Weihong Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Weihong Yang, Zhen Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Zhen Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Weihong Yang, Zhen Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, Key Laboratory of Subtropical Agricultural Resource and Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Zhongming Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Hong Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Jin Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Muhammad Ali

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, Biotechnology Program, Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Abbottabad, Pakistan

Fan Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Subtropical Agricultural Resource and Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Lin Li

lilin@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WY ZZ JL HC. Primary responsible author for the whole work: LL. Performed most of the experiments: WY ZZ. Participated in partial experiments: ZMZ HC JL MA. Participated in design of the experiments: FL. Directed the study: LL. Made most of the data evaluation and interpretation: ZZ ZMZ LL. Drafted parts of the manuscript: WY ZZ. Revised the manuscript: LL.