About the Authors

Kedong Xu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, People's Republic of China

Xiaohui Huang

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, People's Republic of China

Manman Wu

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, People's Republic of China

Yan Wang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, People's Republic of China, College of Life Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China

Yunxia Chang

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, People's Republic of China

Kun Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, People's Republic of China

Ju Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, People's Republic of China

Yi Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, People's Republic of China

Fuli Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, People's Republic of China

Liming Yi

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, People's Republic of China

Tingting Li

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, People's Republic of China

Ruiyue Wang

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, People's Republic of China

Guangxuan Tan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, People's Republic of China

Chengwei Li

lichengweiwau@hotmail.com

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Breeding, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KX. Performed the experiments: XH MW. Analyzed the data: KX CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW YC KL JZ YZ FZ LY TL RW GT. Wrote the paper: KX CL.