About the Authors

Chitvan Khajuria

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Lawrent L. Buschman

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Ming-Shun Chen

Affiliations Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America, USDA-ARS, Hard Winter Wheat Genetics Research Unit, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Blair D. Siegfried

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Kun Yan Zhu

kzhu@ksu.edu

Affiliation 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: CK MSC KYZ. Performed the experiments: CK. Analyzed the data: CK KYZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LLB MSC BDS KYZ. Wrote the paper: CK KYZ.