About the Authors

Zhike Feng

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Kai Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

xukai@njnu.edu.cn (KX); pdnagy2@uky.edu (PDN)

Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

Nikolay Kovalev

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Peter D. Nagy

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

xukai@njnu.edu.cn (KX); pdnagy2@uky.edu (PDN)

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.