About the Authors

Jun Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Cheng, Muhammad Awais Khan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Muhammad Awais Khan

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Cheng, Muhammad Awais Khan

Affiliation Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Wen-Ming Qiu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Jing Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Hui Zhou

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Qiong Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Wenwu Guo

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Tingting Zhu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Junhua Peng

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Fengjie Sun

Affiliation School of Science and Technology, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States of America

Shaohua Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Schuyler S. Korban

korban@illinois.edu (SK); yphan@wbgcas.cn (YH)

Affiliation Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Yuepeng Han

korban@illinois.edu (SK); yphan@wbgcas.cn (YH)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH. Performed the experiments: JC MK W-MQ JL HZ QZ. Analyzed the data: JC MK TZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK JP WG FS SL SK. Wrote the paper: JC MK SK YH.