About the Authors

Jingyan Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jingyan Liu, Haibian Yang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, National Plant Gene Research Center, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Haibian Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jingyan Liu, Haibian Yang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, National Plant Gene Research Center, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Fei Bao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, National Plant Gene Research Center, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Kevin Ao

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Xiaoyan Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, National Plant Gene Research Center, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Yuelin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Shuhua Yang

yangshuhua@cau.edu.cn.

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SY JL HY. Performed the experiments: JL HY FB XZ KA. Analyzed the data: JL HY YZ. Wrote the paper: SY JL.