About the Authors

Jin-Zhi Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Zhi Zhang, Li Mei

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), College of Horticulture and Forestry Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Li Mei

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Zhi Zhang, Li Mei

Current address: Nurturing Station for the State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, Zhejiang Agricultural and Forestry University, LinAn, Zhejiang Province, China

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), College of Horticulture and Forestry Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Rong Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), College of Horticulture and Forestry Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Muhammad Rehman Gul Khan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), College of Horticulture and Forestry Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Chun-Gen Hu

chungen@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (Ministry of Education), College of Horticulture and Forestry Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JZZ CGH. Performed the experiments: RL LM. Analyzed the data: RL LM JZZ MRGK. Wrote the paper: JZZ.