About the Authors

Zong-Ming Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Zong-Ming Xie, Hong-Feng Zou

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Plant Gene Research Center, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural and Reclamation Science, Shihezi, China

Hong-Feng Zou

Contributed equally to this work with: Zong-Ming Xie, Hong-Feng Zou

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Plant Gene Research Center, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Gang Lei

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Plant Gene Research Center, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Wei Wei

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Plant Gene Research Center, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Qi-Yun Zhou

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Plant Gene Research Center, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Can-Fang Niu

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Plant Gene Research Center, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yong Liao

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Plant Gene Research Center, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Ai-Guo Tian

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Plant Gene Research Center, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Biao Ma

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Plant Gene Research Center, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Wan-Ke Zhang

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Plant Gene Research Center, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jin-Song Zhang

jszhang@genetics.ac.cn (JSZ); sychen@genetics.ac.cn (SYC)

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Plant Gene Research Center, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Shou-Yi Chen

jszhang@genetics.ac.cn (JSZ); sychen@genetics.ac.cn (SYC)

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Plant Gene Research Center, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZMX HFZ JSZ SYC. Performed the experiments: ZMX HFZ GL WW QYZ CFN YL AGT. Analyzed the data: ZMX HFZ GL WW QYZ CFN YL AGT BM WKZ JSZ SYC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL WW BM WKZ JSZ SYC. Wrote the paper: ZMX HFZ JSZ SYC.