About the Authors

Jun Yan

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliations Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, and Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Pengcheng Wang

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliations Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, and Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Bangshing Wang

Affiliation Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Chuan-Chih Hsu

Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Kai Tang

Affiliation Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Hairong Zhang

Affiliations Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Sciences, College of Life Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China

Yueh-Ju Hou

Affiliation Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Yang Zhao

Affiliations Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, and Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Qiming Wang

Affiliations Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, College of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Chunzhao Zhao

Affiliations Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, and Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Xiaohong Zhu

Affiliations Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, and Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

W. Andy Tao

Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Jianming Li

Affiliation Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, and Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Jian-Kang Zhu

jkzhu@sibs.ac.cn

Affiliations Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, and Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JY JKZ. Data curation: KT. Formal analysis: JY PW BW CCH HZ KT XZ WAT JL JKZ. Funding acquisition: JKZ. Investigation: JY PW BW CCH HZ YZ YJH QW CZ. Project administration: JKZ. Supervision: JY JKZ. Writing – original draft: JY JL. Writing – review & editing: JY JL JKZ.