About the Authors

Ling-An Kong

Contributed equally to this work with: Ling-An Kong, Jun Yang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and MOA Key Laboratory of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Purdue-NWAFU Joint Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Jun Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ling-An Kong, Jun Yang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and MOA Key Laboratory of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Guo-Tian Li

Affiliation Purdue-NWAFU Joint Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Lin-Lu Qi

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and MOA Key Laboratory of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Yu-Jun Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and MOA Key Laboratory of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Chen-Fang Wang

Affiliation College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Wen-Sheng Zhao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and MOA Key Laboratory of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Jin-Rong Xu

jinrong@purdue.edu (JRX); pengyl@cau.edu.cn (YLP)

Affiliation Purdue-NWAFU Joint Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

You-Liang Peng

jinrong@purdue.edu (JRX); pengyl@cau.edu.cn (YLP)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and MOA Key Laboratory of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LAK JY JRX YLP. Performed the experiments: LAK JY GTL LLQ YJZ CFW WSZ. Analyzed the data: LAK JY JRX YLP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JRX YLP. Wrote the paper: LAK JY JRX YLP.