We are very grateful to Dr. Mark S. Goettel, Editor-in-Chief of Biocontrol Science and Technology (Lethbridge Research Centre, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Canada) for editing the English of this paper. We are thankful to two anonymous reviewers whose appropriate commentary strengthened the manuscript. We thank Mr. Xing-Wen Zheng (Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China), Ms. Min Li (Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, China), Mr. Min Luo (Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China), Hong-Song Chen (Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China) and Mr. Yuan-Hua Luo (Institute of Plant Protection, Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changsha, China) for their help during the experiment. This work was funded by the National Basic Research and Development Program of China (grant No. 2009CB119200); and the National Key Technologies Research and Development Program of China (grant No. 2006BAD08A18).
