About the Authors

Xiao-Feng Zhang

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America, State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Rong Sun

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

Qin Guo

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

Shaoyan Zhang

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

Tea Meulia

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Imaging Center, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America

Randal Halfmann

Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Dawei Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Feng Qu

Qu.28@osu.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FQ. Formal analysis: FQ. Funding acquisition: FQ DL. Investigation: XFZ RS QG SZ. Methodology: FQ RH. Project administration: FQ. Resources: TM FQ. Supervision: FQ. Validation: XFZ RS QG SZ. Visualization: FQ. Writing – original draft: FQ. Writing – review & editing: FQ RH.