About the Authors

Juan Tian

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Tian, Xueyan Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Xueyan Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Tian, Xueyan Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cotton Genetic Improvement, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, China

Benguo Liang

Affiliation Horticulture Department, Xinyang Agricultural College, Xinyang, China

Shanwei Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, China

Zhixia Wu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cotton Genetic Improvement, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, China

Qianhua Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cotton Genetic Improvement, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, China

Chunxu Leng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Jiangli Dong

dongjl@cau.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Tao Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JD TW. Performed the experiments: JT XZ BL SL QW CL. Analyzed the data: JT XZ ZW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZW JD TW. Wrote the paper: JT XZ JD TW.