About the Authors

Qinglei Zhan

Affiliation Centre for Soybean Research of Partner State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China

Sauna Tsai

Affiliation Centre for Soybean Research of Partner State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China

Yonghai Lu

Affiliation Centre for Soybean Research of Partner State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China

Chunmei Wang

Affiliation Centre for Soybean Research of Partner State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China

Yiuwa Kwan

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China

Saiming Ngai

smngai@cuhk.edu.hk

Affiliation Centre for Soybean Research of Partner State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology and School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QLZ SMN CMW. Performed the experiments: QLZ SNT. Analyzed the data: QLZ SMN SNT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QLZ YHL. Wrote the paper: QLZ YWK SMN.