About the Authors

Xiaojian Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaojian Peng, Yang Zhao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Biology of Anhui Province, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Yang Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaojian Peng, Yang Zhao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Biology of Anhui Province, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Jiangang Cao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Biology of Anhui Province, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Wei Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Biology of Anhui Province, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Haiyang Jiang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Biology of Anhui Province, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Xiaoyu Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Biology of Anhui Province, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Qing Ma

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Biology of Anhui Province, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Suwen Zhu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Biology of Anhui Province, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Beijiu Cheng

bjchengahau@163.com

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Biology of Anhui Province, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XJP YZ BJC. Performed the experiments: XJP YZ JGC. Analyzed the data: XJP YZ WZ HYJ XYL. Wrote the paper: XJP YZ BJC. Participated in the design of this study and revised the manuscript: QM SWZ.