About the Authors

Guoqing Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Biotechnology Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Xiaohong Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Biotechnology Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Lilin Zhang

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Huijuan Cao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Biotechnology Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Jianping Lu

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Fucheng Lin

fuchenglin@zju.edu.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Biotechnology Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, China Tobacco Gene Research Center, Zhengzhou Tobacco Institute of CNTC, Zhengzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GC XL FL. Performed the experiments: GC HC LZ. Analyzed the data: GC JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC XL. Wrote the manuscript: GC JL XL FL.