About the Authors

Yongchao Dou

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Center for Plant Science and Innovation, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Jun Wang

Affiliations Scientific Computing Key Laboratory of Shanghai Universities, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Jialiang Yang

Affiliation MPI-Institute of Computational Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Chi Zhang

czhang5@unl.edu

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Center for Plant Science and Innovation, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YD CZ. Performed the experiments: YD. Analyzed the data: YD. Wrote the paper: CZ YD JW JY.