About the Authors

Qi Kuang

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Biotechnology for Plant Development, College of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

Lingfei Li

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Biotechnology for Plant Development, College of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

Jianzong Peng

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Biotechnology for Plant Development, College of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

Shulan Sun

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Biotechnology for Plant Development, College of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

Xiaojing Wang

wangxj@scnu.edu.cn

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Biotechnology for Plant Development, College of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conducted the bioinformatics analysis: QK. Drafted the manuscript: QK. Performed the testified experiments: LFL JZP. Revised the paper: XJW. Supervised the work: XJW. Conceived and designed the experiments: XJW JZP QK. Performed the experiments: QK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SLS.