About the Authors

Chan Ho Park

Contributed equally to this work with: Chan Ho Park, Gautam Shirsekar

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

Gautam Shirsekar

Contributed equally to this work with: Chan Ho Park, Gautam Shirsekar

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

Songbiao Chen

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Biotechnology Research Institute, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

Pattavipha Songkumarn

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

Xin Xie

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

Xuetao Shi

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

Yuese Ning

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

Bo Zhou

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

Pavinee Suttiviriya

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

Mo Wang

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

Kenji Umemura

Affiliation Meiji Seika Kaisha Ltd, Health & Bioscience Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan

Guo-Liang Wang

wang.620@osu.edu

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

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Kenji Umemur is employed by Meiji Seika Kaisha Ltd, Japan.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CHP GS KU GLW. Performed the experiments: CHP GS MB SC XX XS YN BZ PSu PSo MW. Analyzed the data: CHP GSu GLW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB SC PSo. Wrote the paper: CHP GS GLW.