About the Authors

Xueli Zhang

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Center of Crop Molecular Breeding Technology, National Center of Oil Crop Improvement (Wuhan), College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Xianhong Ge

gexianhong@gmail.com (GS); lizaiyun@mail.hzau.edu.cn (ZL)

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Center of Crop Molecular Breeding Technology, National Center of Oil Crop Improvement (Wuhan), College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Yujiao Shao

Affiliation College of Chemistry and Life Science, Hubei University of Education, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Genlou Sun

Affiliation Department of Biology, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada

Zaiyun Li

gexianhong@gmail.com (GS); lizaiyun@mail.hzau.edu.cn (ZL)

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Center of Crop Molecular Breeding Technology, National Center of Oil Crop Improvement (Wuhan), College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZL GS XZ. Performed the experiments: XZ. Analyzed the data: ZL XZ XG YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZL XZ XG. Wrote the paper: ZL XZ XG GS.