About the Authors

Xue-Ming Zhu

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Treats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Institute of Plant Protection and Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

Lin Li

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Treats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Institute of Plant Protection and Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

Jian-Dong Bao

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Treats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Institute of Plant Protection and Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

Jiao-Yu Wang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Treats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Institute of Plant Protection and Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

Asen Daskalov

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Treats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Institute of Plant Protection and Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

Xiao-Hong Liu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Maurizio Del Poeta

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, New York, United States of America

Fu-Cheng Lin

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

fuchenglin@zju.edu.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Treats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products, Institute of Plant Protection and Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Competing Interests

Maurizio Del Poeta is a co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of MicroRid Technologies Inc.