About the Authors

Xiaohong Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaohong Yan, Lei Zhang, Bo Chen

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Oil Crop Biology and Genetic Breeding of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Oil Crops, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China

Lei Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaohong Yan, Lei Zhang, Bo Chen

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Bo Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaohong Yan, Lei Zhang, Bo Chen

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Oil Crop Biology and Genetic Breeding of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Oil Crops, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China

Zhiyong Xiong

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Chunli Chen

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Lijun Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Oil Crop Biology and Genetic Breeding of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Oil Crops, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China

Jingyin Yu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Oil Crop Biology and Genetic Breeding of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Oil Crops, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China

Changming Lu

cmlu@oilcrops.cn (CL); whwei@oilcrops.cn (WW)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Oil Crop Biology and Genetic Breeding of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Oil Crops, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China

Wenhui Wei

cmlu@oilcrops.cn (CL); whwei@oilcrops.cn (WW)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Oil Crop Biology and Genetic Breeding of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Oil Crops, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WW XY. Performed the experiments: XY LZ BC. Analyzed the data: ZX CC JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LW CL WW. Wrote the paper: XY CL WW.