About the Authors

Yuan Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuan Yuan, Hongjie Feng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, P. R. China

Hongjie Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuan Yuan, Hongjie Feng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, P. R. China

Lingfei Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, P. R. China

Zhifang Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, P. R. China

Yongqiang Shi

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, P. R. China

LiHong Zhao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, P. R. China

Zili Feng

heqinanyang@163.com (HZ); fzlsky@126.com (ZF)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, P. R. China

Heqin Zhu

heqinanyang@163.com (HZ); fzlsky@126.com (ZF)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HQZ. Data curation: YY HJF LFW. Formal analysis: HJF ZLF. Funding acquisition: HQZ. Investigation: YY HJF ZLF YQS LHZ. Methodology: HJF ZLF HQZ. Project administration: HQZ. Resources: ZLF HQZ. Software: HJF YY HQZ YQS LHZ. Supervision: HQZ ZLF. Validation: HQZ ZLF HJF. Visualization: HQZ ZLF HJF. Writing – original draft: YY HJF. Writing – review & editing: HQZ HJF ZFL.