About the Authors

Wende Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wende Liu, Xiaoying Zhou

Affiliations Purdue-NWAFU Joint Research Center, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Xiaoying Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Wende Liu, Xiaoying Zhou

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Guotian Li

Affiliations Purdue-NWAFU Joint Research Center, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Lei Li

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Lingan Kong

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Chenfang Wang

Affiliation Purdue-NWAFU Joint Research Center, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Haifeng Zhang

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Jin-Rong Xu

jinrong@purdue.edu

Affiliations Purdue-NWAFU Joint Research Center, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WL XZ JRX. Performed the experiments: WL XZ GL LL LK CW HZ. Analyzed the data: WL XZ JRX. Wrote the paper: WL XZ JRX.