About the Authors

Haitao Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Haitao Shi, Yanping Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

Yanping Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Haitao Shi, Yanping Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

Zhangmin Cheng

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Tiantian Ye

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Zhulong Chan

zhulongch@wbgcas.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS Z. Chan. Performed the experiments: HS YW Z. Cheng TY. Analyzed the data: HS Z. Chan. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HS YW Z. Cheng TY Z. Chan. Wrote the paper: HS Z. Chan.