About the Authors

Lixiao Che

Contributed equally to this work with: Lixiao Che, Kejian Wang, Ding Tang, Qiaoquan Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Kejian Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lixiao Che, Kejian Wang, Ding Tang, Qiaoquan Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Ding Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lixiao Che, Kejian Wang, Ding Tang, Qiaoquan Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Qiaoquan Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lixiao Che, Kejian Wang, Ding Tang, Qiaoquan Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology of Jiangsu Province/Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of Ministry of Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China

Xiaojun Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yafei Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Qing Hu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yi Shen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Hengxiu Yu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology of Jiangsu Province/Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of Ministry of Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China

Minghong Gu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology of Jiangsu Province/Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of Ministry of Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China

Zhukuan Cheng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZC MG KW. Performed the experiments: LC DT XC. Analyzed the data: YL QH YS KW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QL HY. Wrote the paper: ZC LC KW.