About the Authors

Liying Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Liying Wang, Lihong Zhang, Zhangzhi Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology and College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China

Lihong Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Liying Wang, Lihong Zhang, Zhangzhi Liu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology and College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China, College of Life Science, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen, P. R. China

Zhangzhi Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Liying Wang, Lihong Zhang, Zhangzhi Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology and College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China

Dehua Zhao

Affiliation Synthetic Biology Center, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xiaomeng Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology and College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China

Bo Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology and College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China

Jianbo Xie

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology and College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China

Yuanyuan Hong

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology and College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China

Pengfei Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology and College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China

Sanfeng Chen

sanfeng_chen@126.com (SC); ray.dixon@jic.ac.uk (RD)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology and College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China

Ray Dixon

sanfeng_chen@126.com (SC); ray.dixon@jic.ac.uk (RD)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom

Jilun Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology and College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC RD. Performed the experiments: LW LZ ZL JX XL BZ YH PL. Analyzed the data: SC RD DZ JL. Wrote the paper: SC RD. Designed the figures: PL.