About the Authors

Xiangpei Kong

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, Shandong, China

Wei Lv

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, Shandong, China

Dan Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, Shandong, China

Shanshan Jiang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, Shandong, China

Shizhong Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Horticulture Science and Engineering, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, Shandong, China

Dequan Li

dqli@sdau.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, Shandong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XK DL. Performed the experiments: XK DZ SJ. Analyzed the data: XK WL SZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XK. Wrote the paper: XK DL.