About the Authors

Zhiqiang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiqiang Li, Bo Ding

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, Southern Regional Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain and Oil Crops in China and College of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Bo Ding

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiqiang Li, Bo Ding

wang.620@osu.edu (GLW); bding@ippcaas.cn (BD)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Xueping Zhou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Guo-Liang Wang

wang.620@osu.edu (GLW); bding@ippcaas.cn (BD)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, Southern Regional Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain and Oil Crops in China and College of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ZL BD GLW. Funding acquisition: BD. Methodology: ZL BD. Project administration: BD GLW. Supervision: XZ GLW. Validation: ZL BD. Visualization: ZL BD. Writing – original draft: ZL BD. Writing – review & editing: ZL BD XZ GLW.