About the Authors

Yufeng Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yufeng Cheng, Qian Wang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P. R. China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P. R. China

Qian Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yufeng Cheng, Qian Wang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P. R. China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P. R. China

Zhanjie Li

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P. R. China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P. R. China

Jianmin Cui

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P. R. China, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P. R. China

Shengwu Hu

swhu83251@nwsuaf.edu.cn (SH); huixianzhao212@nwsuaf.edu.cn (HZ)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P. R. China, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P. R. China

Huixian Zhao

swhu83251@nwsuaf.edu.cn (SH); huixianzhao212@nwsuaf.edu.cn (HZ)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P. R. China, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P. R. China

Mingshun Chen

Affiliation USDA-ARS and Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH HZ. Performed the experiments: YY ZL JC. Analyzed the data: YY QW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YC ZL JC. Wrote the paper: QW SH HZ MC.