About the Authors

Xue Chen

Affiliation Laboratory of Modern Biotechnology, School of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Zhu Chen

Affiliation Laboratory of Modern Biotechnology, School of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Hualin Zhao

Affiliation Laboratory of Modern Biotechnology, School of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Yang Zhao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Biology of Anhui Agriculture University, Hefei, China

Beijiu Cheng

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Biology of Anhui Agriculture University, Hefei, China

Yan Xiang

xiangyan@ahau.edu.cn

Affiliation Laboratory of Modern Biotechnology, School of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XC ZC YX. Performed the experiments: XC ZC. Analyzed the data: XC ZC HLZ YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XC ZC YZ BJC. Wrote the paper: XC ZC YX BJC.