About the Authors

Yingfang Zhu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

zhu219@purdue.edu (YZ); zhu132@purdue.edu (JKZ)

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

Bangshing Wang

Roles Data curation, Investigation

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

Kai Tang

Roles Formal analysis

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

Chuan-Chih Hsu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America

Shaojun Xie

Roles Formal analysis

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

Hai Du

Roles Validation

Affiliations Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Yuting Yang

Roles Validation

Affiliations Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America, Key Laboratory of Sugarcane Biology and Genetic Breeding Ministry of Agriculture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University Fuzhou, Fuzhou, China

Weiguo Andy Tao

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America

Jian-Kang Zhu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

zhu219@purdue.edu (YZ); zhu132@purdue.edu (JKZ)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.