About the Authors

Kaili Zhong

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China

Xiao Li

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China

Xinyi Le

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China

Xiangyi Kong

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China

Haifeng Zhang

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China

Xiaobo Zheng

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China

Ping Wang

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Zhengguang Zhang

zhgzhang@njau.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZZ XZ PW KZ. Performed the experiments: KZ XLi XLe XK. Analyzed the data: KZ ZZ XLi HZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZZ XZ HZ. Wrote the paper: ZZ PW XZ HZ KZ.