About the Authors

Jiqing Zhang

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.