About the Authors

Hua Cai

Contributed equally to this work with: Hua Cai, Jun Jiang

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Jun Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hua Cai, Jun Jiang

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Qi Yang

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Qingmei Chen

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Yiqun Deng

yqdeng@scau.edu.cn

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HC JJ YD. Performed the experiments: HC QY QC. Analyzed the data: HC QY JJ YD. Wrote the paper: HC JJ YD.