About the Authors

Fei Wang

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

Yifen Shang

Affiliation Department of Horticulture, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Baofang Fan

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

Jing-Quan Yu

Affiliation Department of Horticulture, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Zhixiang Chen

zhixiang@purdue.edu

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Horticulture, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FW ZC. Performed the experiments: FW YS BF. Analyzed the data: FW JQY ZC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JQY. Wrote the paper: FW ZC.