About the Authors

Ting Yang

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Nannan Liu

liunann@auburn.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NL. Performed the experiments: TY. Analyzed the data: NL TY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NL. Wrote the paper: NL.