About the Authors

Hong Lin

hong.lin@ars.usda.gov

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, CDPG, San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, Parlier, California, United States of America

Binghai Lou

Contributed equally to this work with: Binghai Lou, Jonathan M. Glynn, Harshavardhan Doddapaneni

Affiliations United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, CDPG, San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, Parlier, California, United States of America, Guangxi Citrus Research Institute, Guilin, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Jonathan M. Glynn

Contributed equally to this work with: Binghai Lou, Jonathan M. Glynn, Harshavardhan Doddapaneni

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, CDPG, San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, Parlier, California, United States of America

Harshavardhan Doddapaneni

Contributed equally to this work with: Binghai Lou, Jonathan M. Glynn, Harshavardhan Doddapaneni

Affiliation Carver Center for Genomics, Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Edwin L. Civerolo

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, CDPG, San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, Parlier, California, United States of America

Chuanwu Chen

Affiliation Guangxi Citrus Research Institute, Guilin, Guangxi, People's Republic of China

Yongping Duan

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, USHRL, Fort Pierce, Florida, United States of America

Lijuan Zhou

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Cheryl M. Vahling

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, USHRL, Fort Pierce, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HL BL EC YD. Performed the experiments: HL BL CC LZ. Analyzed the data: HL JG HD. Wrote the paper: JG HL HD EC DYP CMV.