About the Authors

Xiaoping Gou

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoping Gou, Hongju Yin, Kai He

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Hongju Yin

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoping Gou, Hongju Yin, Kai He

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Kai He

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoping Gou, Hongju Yin, Kai He

Affiliation Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Junbo Du

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, School of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Jing Yi

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Shengbao Xu

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Honghui Lin

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Steven D. Clouse

Affiliation Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Jia Li

lijia@lzu.edu.cn

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XG JL. Performed the experiments: XG HY KH JD JY SX HL. Analyzed the data: XG HY JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XG HY KH. Wrote the paper: XG SDC JL.