This research was funded by Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.LQ19C140004);Key Research and Development Project of Zhejiang Province(Grant No.2019C02018);the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences under the‘Elite Youth’program,and the Agricultural Sciences and Technologies Innovation Program.We thank Prof.HUANG Junbin of Huazhong Agriculture University(Wuhan,China)for providing inoculum of the U.virens strain HWD-2.
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