About the Authors

Hongyan Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongyan Chen, Minxia Chou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, College of Life Sciences, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Minxia Chou

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongyan Chen, Minxia Chou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, College of Life Sciences, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Xinye Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, College of Life Sciences, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Sisi Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, College of Life Sciences, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Feilong Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, College of Life Sciences, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Gehong Wei

weigehong@nwsuaf.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, College of Life Sciences, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GW MC HC. Performed the experiments: HC MC XW SL FZ. Analyzed the data: HC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GW MC. Wrote the paper: HC.