About the Authors

Li Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Huang, Huifang Jiang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China

Huifang Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Huang, Huifang Jiang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China

Xiaoping Ren

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China

Yuning Chen

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China

Yingjie Xiao

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Xinyan Zhao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China

Mei Tang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China

Jiaquan Huang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China

Hari D. Upadhyaya

Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India

Boshou Liao

lboshou@hotmail.com

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HJ LH BL. Performed the experiments: XR YC XZ MT JH. Analyzed the data: LH YX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJ YX. Wrote the paper: HJ LH BL HDU.