About the Authors

Ri-He Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Ri-He Peng, Yong-Sheng Tian

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genetics and Breeding, Biotechnology Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Yong-Sheng Tian

Contributed equally to this work with: Ri-He Peng, Yong-Sheng Tian

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genetics and Breeding, Biotechnology Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Ai-Sheng Xiong

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genetics and Breeding, Biotechnology Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Wei Zhao

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genetics and Breeding, Biotechnology Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Xiao-Yan Fu

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genetics and Breeding, Biotechnology Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Hong-Juan Han

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genetics and Breeding, Biotechnology Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Chen Chen

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genetics and Breeding, Biotechnology Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Xiao-Fen Jin

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genetics and Breeding, Biotechnology Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Quan-Hong Yao

yaoquanhong_sh@yahoo.com.cn

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genetics and Breeding, Biotechnology Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QHY RHP. Performed the experiments: YST WZ XYF. Analyzed the data: HJH CC XFJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ASX. Wrote the paper: RHP.