About the Authors

Haiyang Zhang

zhy@hnagri.org.cn

Affiliation Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China

Chun Li

Affiliation Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China

Hongmei Miao

Affiliation Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China

Songjin Xiong

Affiliation TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HYZ. Performed the experiments: SJX. Analyzed the data: CL SJX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HMM HYZ. Wrote the paper: HMM CL HYZ.