About the Authors

Rong Fan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Current address: College of Agriculture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Affiliations NIAB-EMR, East Malling, Kent, United Kingdom, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

Helen M. Cockerton

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation NIAB-EMR, East Malling, Kent, United Kingdom

Andrew D. Armitage

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation NIAB-EMR, East Malling, Kent, United Kingdom

Helen Bates

Roles Investigation

Affiliation NIAB-EMR, East Malling, Kent, United Kingdom

Emma Cascant-Lopez

Roles Investigation

Affiliation NIAB-EMR, East Malling, Kent, United Kingdom

Laima Antanaviciute

Roles Investigation

Affiliations NIAB-EMR, East Malling, Kent, United Kingdom, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

Xiangming Xu

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations NIAB-EMR, East Malling, Kent, United Kingdom, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

Xiaoping Hu

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

Richard J. Harrison

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

richard.harrison@emr.ac.uk

Affiliations NIAB-EMR, East Malling, Kent, United Kingdom, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.