About the Authors
- Jiqing Zhang
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Affiliation MOA Key Lab of Soybean Biology (Beijing), the National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- Changjian Xia
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Affiliation MOA Key Lab of Soybean Biology (Beijing), the National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- Canxing Duan
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Affiliation MOA Key Lab of Soybean Biology (Beijing), the National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- Suli Sun
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Affiliation MOA Key Lab of Soybean Biology (Beijing), the National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- Xiaoming Wang
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Affiliation MOA Key Lab of Soybean Biology (Beijing), the National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- Xiaofei Wu
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Affiliation MOA Key Lab of Soybean Biology (Beijing), the National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- Zhendong Zhu
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* E-mail: zhuzhendong@caas.cn
Affiliation MOA Key Lab of Soybean Biology (Beijing), the National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Competing Interests
The Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences has applied to the Patent Office, China, for a patent on this gene. The authors confirm that this not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. And the authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ZZ JZ. Performed the experiments: JZ CX. Analyzed the data: CD SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: X. Wang X. Wu. Wrote the paper: JZ ZZ.