About the Authors

Jinling Liu

‡These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Innovation and Utilization and College of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Chan Ho Park

‡These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Feng He

‡These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Innovation and Utilization and College of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Minoru Nagano

Affiliations Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan, Department of Science and Technology, Saitama University, Sakura-ku, Saitama, Japan

Mo Wang

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Maria Bellizzi

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Kai Zhang

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Xiaoshan Zeng

Affiliation Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Innovation and Utilization and College of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Wende Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Yuese Ning

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Yoji Kawano

Affiliations Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan, Signal Transduction and Immunity Group, Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Shanghai, China

Guo-Liang Wang

wang.620@osu.edu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL CHP YK GLW. Performed the experiments: JL CHP MW MN WL YN FH MB XZ KZ. Analyzed the data: JL GLW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL CHP MW FH. Wrote the paper: JL YK GLW.