About the Authors

Hong Zhai

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Zhai, Shixiang Lü

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China

Shixiang Lü

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Zhai, Shixiang Lü

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yueqiang Wang

Affiliation Soybean Research Institute, Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun, China

Xin Chen

Affiliation Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China

Haixiang Ren

Affiliation Mudanjiang Branch of Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Mudanjiang, China

Jiayin Yang

Affiliation Huaiyin Institute of Agricultural Sciences of Xuhuai Region in Jiangsu, Huaian, China

Wen Cheng

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China

Chunmei Zong

Affiliation Mudanjiang Branch of Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Mudanjiang, China

Heping Gu

Affiliation Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China

Hongmei Qiu

Affiliation Soybean Research Institute, Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun, China

Hongyan Wu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China

Xingzheng Zhang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Tingting Cui

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China

Zhengjun Xia

xiazhj@iga.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZX HZ SL. Performed the experiments: HZ SL JY WC CZ HG HQ XZ TC. Analyzed the data: ZX HZ SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW XC HR. Wrote the paper: ZX SL HZ.