About the Authors

Haicui Suo

Contributed equally to this work with: Haicui Suo, Qibin Ma

Affiliation The Guangdong Subcenter of National Center for Soybean Improvement, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Biological Resources Protection and Utilization in Subtropics, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Qibin Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Haicui Suo, Qibin Ma

Affiliation The Guangdong Subcenter of National Center for Soybean Improvement, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Biological Resources Protection and Utilization in Subtropics, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Kaixin Ye

Affiliation The Guangdong Subcenter of National Center for Soybean Improvement, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Biological Resources Protection and Utilization in Subtropics, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Cunyi Yang

Affiliation The Guangdong Subcenter of National Center for Soybean Improvement, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Biological Resources Protection and Utilization in Subtropics, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Yujuan Tang

Affiliation The Guangdong Subcenter of National Center for Soybean Improvement, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Biological Resources Protection and Utilization in Subtropics, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Juan Hao

Affiliation The Guangdong Subcenter of National Center for Soybean Improvement, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Biological Resources Protection and Utilization in Subtropics, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Zhanyuan J. Zhang

Affiliation Plant Transformation Core Facility, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Mingluan Chen

Affiliation College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, P. R. China

Yuqi Feng

Affiliation College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, P. R. China

Hai Nian

hnian@scau.edu.cn

Affiliation The Guangdong Subcenter of National Center for Soybean Improvement, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Biological Resources Protection and Utilization in Subtropics, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HCS QBM KXY. Performed the experiments: HCS QBM KXY MLC YQF. Analyzed the data: HCS QBM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CYY QBM. Wrote the paper: HCS HN QBM ZYJZ CYY. Soybean transformation and gained the soybean transgenic lines: HCS KXY YJT JH.