About the Authors

Xiaodong Bai

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaodong Bai, Praveen Mamidala

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Ohio Agricultural and Research Development Center, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America

Praveen Mamidala

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaodong Bai, Praveen Mamidala

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Ohio Agricultural and Research Development Center, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America

Swapna P. Rajarapu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Ohio Agricultural and Research Development Center, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America

Susan C. Jones

Affiliation Department of Entomology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Omprakash Mittapalli

mittapalli.1@osu.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Ohio Agricultural and Research Development Center, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XB PM SPR SCJ OM. Performed the experiments: PM SPJ OM. Analyzed the data: XB PM SPR OM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XB SCJ. Wrote the paper: PM SCJ OM.