About the Authors

Ping Ouyang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Ouyang, Mohammad Arif

Affiliations National Institute for Microbial Forensics & Food and Agricultural Biosecurity, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Mohammad Arif

Contributed equally to this work with: Ping Ouyang, Mohammad Arif

Current address: Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Affiliations National Institute for Microbial Forensics & Food and Agricultural Biosecurity, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Jacqueline Fletcher

* Email: Jacqueline.fletcher@okstate.edu (JF); ochoaco@okstate.edu (MOC)

Affiliations National Institute for Microbial Forensics & Food and Agricultural Biosecurity, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Ulrich Melcher

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Francisco Manuel Ochoa Corona

* Email: Jacqueline.fletcher@okstate.edu (JF); ochoaco@okstate.edu (MOC)

Affiliations National Institute for Microbial Forensics & Food and Agricultural Biosecurity, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA FMOC JF UM. Performed the experiments: PO MA. Analyzed the data: MA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JF FMOC. Wrote the manuscript: PO MA JF UM FMOC.