Molecular identification and functional characterization of the cathepsin B gene (Ab-cb-1) in the plant parasitic nematode Aphelenchoides besseyi

• Hong-Le Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hong-Le Wang, Xi Cheng

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Plant Nematology and Research Center of Nematodes of Plant Quarantine, Department of Plant Pathology / Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

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• Xi Cheng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hong-Le Wang, Xi Cheng

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Laboratory of Plant Nematology and Research Center of Nematodes of Plant Quarantine, Department of Plant Pathology / Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Biopesticide and Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, People’s Republic of China

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• Shan-Wen Ding,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Laboratory of Plant Nematology and Research Center of Nematodes of Plant Quarantine, Department of Plant Pathology / Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

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• Dong-Wei Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Validation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Plant Nematology and Research Center of Nematodes of Plant Quarantine, Department of Plant Pathology / Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

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• Chun Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Plant Nematology and Research Center of Nematodes of Plant Quarantine, Department of Plant Pathology / Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

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• Chun-Ling Xu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Plant Nematology and Research Center of Nematodes of Plant Quarantine, Department of Plant Pathology / Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

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• Hui Xie

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xiehui@scau.edu.cn

  Affiliation Laboratory of Plant Nematology and Research Center of Nematodes of Plant Quarantine, Department of Plant Pathology / Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5035-4427

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