About the Authors

Rui Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Wu, Xiaoran Wang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of Ministry of Education (MOE), Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China, Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California, United States of America

Xiaoran Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Wu, Xiaoran Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of Ministry of Education (MOE), Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China

Yan Lin

Affiliation Jilin Academy of Vegetables and Flowers, Changchun Changchun, Jilin Province, China

Yiqiao Ma

Affiliation Jilin Academy of Vegetables and Flowers, Changchun Changchun, Jilin Province, China

Gang Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of Ministry of Education (MOE), Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China

Xiaoming Yu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of Ministry of Education (MOE), Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China

Silin Zhong

silin.zhong@googlemail.com (SZ); baoliu@nenu.edu.cn (BL)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of Ministry of Education (MOE), Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Bao Liu

silin.zhong@googlemail.com (SZ); baoliu@nenu.edu.cn (BL)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of Ministry of Education (MOE), Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RW SLZ BL. Performed the experiments: RW XRW YL YQM GL. Analyzed the data: RW XRW XMY BL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XMY SLZ BL. Wrote the paper: RW SLZ BL.