About the Authors

Dan Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Jin, Ming Wu

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Current address: Key Laboratory of Biotechnology and Crop Quality Improvement of Ministry of Agriculture, Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Ming Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Jin, Ming Wu

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Bosheng Li

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Current address: Department of Biology, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Birte Bücker

Roles Data curation

Current address: Institut für Biochemie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Philipp Keil

Roles Data curation

Current address: Institut für Biochemie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Shaoman Zhang

Roles Data curation

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, MOE Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Jigang Li

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Dingming Kang

Roles Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation MOE Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Jie Liu

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Jie Dong

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Xing Wang Deng

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

Current address: State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Advanced Agriculture Sciences and School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Vivian Irish

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Ning Wei

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ning.wei@yale.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.