About the Authors

Yuanyuan Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuanyuan Xu, Yang Zhou

Affiliation College of Agronomy/Key laboratory of Physiological Ecology and Genetic Improvement of Food Crops in Henan Province, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China

Yang Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuanyuan Xu, Yang Zhou

Affiliations Hainan Key Laboratory for Sustainable Utilization of Tropical Bioresources/College of Agriculture, Hainan University, Haikou, China, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, China

Sha Hong

Affiliation Hainan Key Laboratory for Sustainable Utilization of Tropical Bioresources/College of Agriculture, Hainan University, Haikou, China

Zhihui Xia

Affiliation Hainan Key Laboratory for Sustainable Utilization of Tropical Bioresources/College of Agriculture, Hainan University, Haikou, China

Dangqun Cui

Affiliation College of Agronomy/Key laboratory of Physiological Ecology and Genetic Improvement of Food Crops in Henan Province, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China

Jianchun Guo

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, China

Haixia Xu

haixiaxu@sohu.com (HX); jiangxingyu2002@yahoo.com (XJ)

Affiliation College of Agronomy/Key laboratory of Physiological Ecology and Genetic Improvement of Food Crops in Henan Province, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China

Xingyu Jiang

haixiaxu@sohu.com (HX); jiangxingyu2002@yahoo.com (XJ)

Affiliation Hainan Key Laboratory for Sustainable Utilization of Tropical Bioresources/College of Agriculture, Hainan University, Haikou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DC JG HX XJ. Performed the experiments: YX YZ SH XJ. Analyzed the data: YX YZ ZX DC HX XJ. Wrote the paper: HX XJ.