About the Authors
- Safae Hamdoun
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Zhe Liu
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China
- Manroop Gill
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Nan Yao
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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China
- Hua Lu
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* E-mail: hualu@umbc.edu
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
Co-author Hua Lu is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member and this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HL. Performed the experiments: SH ZL MG NY HL. Analyzed the data: HL NY SH ZL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HL NY. Wrote the manuscript: HL. SA quantitation and PR1 expression: SH HL. EM: ZL NY HL. Cell death staining and nuclear DNA staining/quantitation: SH HL. Sectioning: MG SH ZL NY. Quantitation of abnormal growths: SH MG.