About the Authors

Lijing Xing

Affiliation Research Center for Molecular Developmental Biology, Key Laboratory of Photosynthesis and Environmental Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Juan Li

Affiliation Research Center for Molecular Developmental Biology, Key Laboratory of Photosynthesis and Environmental Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yunyuan Xu

Affiliation Research Center for Molecular Developmental Biology, Key Laboratory of Photosynthesis and Environmental Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Zhihong Xu

Affiliation National Centre for Plant Gene Research, Beijing, China

Kang Chong

chongk@ibcas.ac.cn

Affiliations Research Center for Molecular Developmental Biology, Key Laboratory of Photosynthesis and Environmental Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, National Centre for Plant Gene Research, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LX YX KC. Performed the experiments: LX JL YX. Analyzed the data: LX ZX KC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LX. Wrote the paper: LX KC.