About the Authors

Zheng-Hui Hong

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Tao Qing

Roles Investigation

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Daniel Schubert

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliations Plant Developmental Epigenetics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, Epigenetics of Plants, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Julia Anna Kleinmanns

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

julia.kleinmanns@hhu.de (JAK); jianxiangliu@zju.edu.cn (JXL)

Current address: Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

Affiliation Plant Developmental Epigenetics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Jian-Xiang Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

julia.kleinmanns@hhu.de (JAK); jianxiangliu@zju.edu.cn (JXL)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.