About the Authors

Hua Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hua Zhang, Qun Wan

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Hybrid Cotton R & D Engineering Center/the Ministre of Education, Cotton Research Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Qun Wan

Contributed equally to this work with: Hua Zhang, Qun Wan

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Hybrid Cotton R & D Engineering Center/the Ministre of Education, Cotton Research Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Wenxue Ye

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Hybrid Cotton R & D Engineering Center/the Ministre of Education, Cotton Research Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Yuanda Lv

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Hybrid Cotton R & D Engineering Center/the Ministre of Education, Cotton Research Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Huaitong Wu

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Hybrid Cotton R & D Engineering Center/the Ministre of Education, Cotton Research Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Tianzhen Zhang

cotton@njau.edu.cn

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Hybrid Cotton R & D Engineering Center/the Ministre of Education, Cotton Research Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

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Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TZ. Performed the experiments: HZ QW WY HW. Analyzed the data: HZ YL. Wrote the paper: HZ TZ.