About the Authors

Tao Hu

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

Longxing Hu

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

Xunzhong Zhang

Affiliation Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States of America

Pingping Zhang

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

Zhuangjun Zhao

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

Jinmin Fu

jfu@wbgcas.cn

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMF TH. Performed the experiments: TH PPZ ZJZ. Analyzed the data: TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LXH. Wrote the paper: TH XZZ. N/A.