About the Authors

Xiaoguo Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoguo Zheng, Liang Chen

Affiliations College of Plant Sciences & Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, Shanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Shanghai, China

Liang Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoguo Zheng, Liang Chen

Affiliation Shanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Shanghai, China

Mingshou Li

Affiliation Shanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Shanghai, China

Qiaojun Lou

Affiliation Shanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Shanghai, China

Hui Xia

Affiliation Shanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Shanghai, China

Pei Wang

Affiliation Shanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Shanghai, China

Tiemei Li

Affiliation Shanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Shanghai, China

Hongyan Liu

Affiliation Shanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Shanghai, China

Lijun Luo

lijun@sagc.org.cn

Affiliations College of Plant Sciences & Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, Shanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL LC. Performed the experiments: XZ ML QL PW TL. Analyzed the data: XZ LC HX QL HL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ML LC. Wrote the manuscript: XZ LC HX.