About the Authors

Jie Ye

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Wangfang Li

Roles Investigation

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Guo Ai

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Changxing Li

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Genzhong Liu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Weifang Chen

Roles Investigation

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Bing Wang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Wenqian Wang

Roles Methodology

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Yongen Lu

Roles Supervision

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Junhong Zhang

Roles Supervision

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Hanxia Li

Roles Supervision

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Bo Ouyang

Roles Supervision

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Hongyan Zhang

Roles Methodology

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Zhangjun Fei

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

James J. Giovannoni

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Robert W. Holley Center, US Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Zhibiao Ye

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

zbye@mail.hzau.edu.cn (ZY); yyzhang@mail.hzau.edu.cn (YZ)

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Yuyang Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

zbye@mail.hzau.edu.cn (ZY); yyzhang@mail.hzau.edu.cn (YZ)

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.