About the Authors

Xuelian Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuelian Yang, Feng Wu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Feng Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuelian Yang, Feng Wu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Xuelei Lin

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Xiaoqiu Du

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Kang Chong

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Lydia Gramzow

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Susanne Schilling

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Annette Becker

Affiliation Plant Evo-Devo Group, The Institute of Botany, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Gießen, Germany

Günter Theißen

guenter.theissen@uni-jena.de (GT); zhmeng@ibcas.ac.cn (ZM)

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Zheng Meng

guenter.theissen@uni-jena.de (GT); zhmeng@ibcas.ac.cn (ZM)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XY ZM. Performed the experiments: XY FW LG. Analyzed the data: XY FW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XL XD. Wrote the paper: XY FW ZM GT. Gave suggestions for the draft manuscript: KC SS AB.