About the Authors

Xiaoying Zhou

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Haifeng Zhang

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Guotian Li

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Purdue-NWAFU Joint Research Center, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shanxi, China

Brian Shaw

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Jin-Rong Xu

jinrong@purdue.edu

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Purdue-NWAFU Joint Research Center, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XYZ JRX. Performed the experiments: XYZ HFZ GTL BS. Analyzed the data: XYZ JRX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BS. Wrote the paper: XYZ JRX.