About the Authors

Xiaona Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaona Cui, Zhiai Guo

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Zhiai Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaona Cui, Zhiai Guo

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Lizhen Song

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yanli Wang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Youfa Cheng

yfcheng@ibcas.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YC. Performed the experiments: XC ZG LS YW YC. Analyzed the data: XC ZG YC. Wrote the paper: XC ZG YC.