About the Authors

Xueyan Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xueyan Zhang, Dongxia Yao, Qianhua Wang, Wenying Xu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences (CAAS), Anyang, Henan, China

Dongxia Yao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xueyan Zhang, Dongxia Yao, Qianhua Wang, Wenying Xu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Qianhua Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xueyan Zhang, Dongxia Yao, Qianhua Wang, Wenying Xu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences (CAAS), Anyang, Henan, China

Wenying Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xueyan Zhang, Dongxia Yao, Qianhua Wang, Wenying Xu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Qiang Wei

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Chunchao Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Chuanliang Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences (CAAS), Anyang, Henan, China

Chaojun Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences (CAAS), Anyang, Henan, China

Hong Yan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Yi Ling

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Zhen Su

zhensu@cau.edu.cn (ZS); aylifug@hotmail.com (FL)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Fuguang Li

zhensu@cau.edu.cn (ZS); aylifug@hotmail.com (FL)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences (CAAS), Anyang, Henan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WX ZS FL XZ. Performed the experiments: DY WX XZ Q. Wang Q. Wei CW. Analyzed the data: WX ZS XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DY Q. Wang XZ WX CL CZ HY YL FL. Wrote the paper: WX ZS XZ.