About the Authors

Mingmin Zhao

Affiliation Departamento de Genética Molecular de Plantas, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain

David San León

Affiliation Departamento de Genética Molecular de Plantas, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain

Frida Mesel

Affiliation Departamento de Genética Molecular de Plantas, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain

Juan Antonio García

Affiliation Departamento de Genética Molecular de Plantas, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain

Carmen Simón-Mateo

csimon@cnb.csic.es

Affiliations Departamento de Genética Molecular de Plantas, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain, College of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, 434025, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MZ JAG CS-M. Performed the experiments: MZ FM. Analyzed the data: MZ DSL FM JAG CS-M. Wrote the paper: JAG CS-M.