About the Authors

Xiangdong Chen

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cotton Research Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Wangzhen Guo

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cotton Research Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Bingliang Liu

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cotton Research Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Yuanming Zhang

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cotton Research Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Xianliang Song

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cotton Research Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Yu Cheng

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cotton Research Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Lili Zhang

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cotton Research Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Tianzhen Zhang

cotton@njau.edu.cn

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Cotton Research Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TZZ. Performed the experiments: XDC WZG. Analyzed the data: XDC BLL YC LLZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YMZ XLS. Wrote the paper: XDC TZZ.