About the Authors

Yali Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Yali Song, Jingjin Yu

Affiliations College of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Jingjin Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yali Song, Jingjin Yu

Affiliation College of Agro-Grassland Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Bingru Huang

huang@aesop.rutgers.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BH. Performed the experiments: YS JY. Analyzed the data: YS JY BH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YS JY BH. Wrote the paper: YS JY BH.