About the Authors

Hui Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Liu, Bo Ouyang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Bo Ouyang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Liu, Bo Ouyang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Junhong Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Taotao Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Hanxia Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Yuyang Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Chuying Yu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Zhibiao Ye

zbye@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZY. Performed the experiments: HL JZ CY. Analyzed the data: HL BO YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TW HL. Wrote the paper: HL BO ZY.