About the Authors

Rui Lu

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Erbay Yigit

Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wan-Xiang Li

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Shou-Wei Ding

shou-wei.ding@ucr.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL SWD. Performed the experiments: RL EY WXL. Analyzed the data: RL EY WXL SWD. Wrote the paper: RL SWD.