About the Authors

Yangyang Wei

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, / Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (ICR-CAAS), Anyang, Henan, China, National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Yanchao Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanchao Xu, Pu Lu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, / Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (ICR-CAAS), Anyang, Henan, China

Pu Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanchao Xu, Pu Lu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, / Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (ICR-CAAS), Anyang, Henan, China

Xingxing Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, / Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (ICR-CAAS), Anyang, Henan, China

Zhenqing Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, / Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (ICR-CAAS), Anyang, Henan, China

Xiaoyan Cai

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, / Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (ICR-CAAS), Anyang, Henan, China

Zhongli Zhou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, / Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (ICR-CAAS), Anyang, Henan, China

Yuhong Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, / Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (ICR-CAAS), Anyang, Henan, China

Zhenmei Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, / Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (ICR-CAAS), Anyang, Henan, China

Zhongxu Lin

linzhongxu@mail.hzau.edu.cn (ZL); liufcri@163.com (FL); wkbcri@163.com (KW)

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Fang Liu

linzhongxu@mail.hzau.edu.cn (ZL); liufcri@163.com (FL); wkbcri@163.com (KW)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, / Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (ICR-CAAS), Anyang, Henan, China

Kunbo Wang

linzhongxu@mail.hzau.edu.cn (ZL); liufcri@163.com (FL); wkbcri@163.com (KW)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, / Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science (ICR-CAAS), Anyang, Henan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KW FL XW Z. Lin. Data curation: Y. Wei XC Z. Li PL. Formal analysis: Y. Wei XC Z. Lin PL. Funding acquisition: KW FL XW. Investigation: Y. Wei YX Z. Li PL. Methodology: KW FL XW. Project administration: KW FL XW. Resources: KW FL XW Z. Lin. Software: Y. Wei. Supervision: XW XC Z. Zhou Y. Wang Z. Zhang. Validation: Y. Wei PL YX Z. Li. Visualization: Y. Wei. Writing – original draft: Y. Wei. Writing – review & editing: KW XW Y. Wei.