About the Authors

Bin Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Hu, Muhammad Junaid Rao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (Ministry of Agriculture), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Muhammad Junaid Rao

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Hu, Muhammad Junaid Rao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (Ministry of Agriculture), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Xiuxin Deng

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (Ministry of Agriculture), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Sheo Shankar Pandey

Affiliation Citrus Research and Education Center, Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, Florida, United States of America

Connor Hendrich

Affiliation Citrus Research and Education Center, Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, Florida, United States of America

Fang Ding

dinfany@mail.hzau.edu.cn (FD); nianwang@ufl.edu (NW); xuqiang@mail.hzau.edu.cn (QX)

Affiliation Hubei Key Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Nian Wang

dinfany@mail.hzau.edu.cn (FD); nianwang@ufl.edu (NW); xuqiang@mail.hzau.edu.cn (QX)

Affiliation Citrus Research and Education Center, Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, Florida, United States of America

Qiang Xu

dinfany@mail.hzau.edu.cn (FD); nianwang@ufl.edu (NW); xuqiang@mail.hzau.edu.cn (QX)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (Ministry of Agriculture), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.