About the Authors

Cheng Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng Yuan, Cui Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Cui Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng Yuan, Cui Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Lijie Yan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Andrew O. Jackson

Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Zhiyong Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Chenggui Han

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Jialin Yu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Dawei Li

Dawei.Li@cau.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DL AOJ. Performed the experiments: CY CL LY. Analyzed the data: ZL CH JY. Wrote the paper: DL AOJ CY CL.