About the Authors

Chunzhao Zhao

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Development Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Haozhen Nie

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Development Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Qiujing Shen

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Development Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Shuqun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Wolfgang Lukowitz

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Dingzhong Tang

dztang@genetics.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Development Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DT CZ. Performed the experiments: CZ HN QS. Analyzed the data: CZ DT SZ WL. Wrote the paper: CZ DT.