About the Authors

Qiusheng Kong

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiusheng Kong, Jingxian Yuan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education/College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Jingxian Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Qiusheng Kong, Jingxian Yuan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education/College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Lingyun Gao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education/College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Shuang Zhao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education/College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Wei Jiang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education/College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Yuan Huang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education/College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Zhilong Bie

biezhilong@hotmail.com

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Ministry of Education/College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QK JY ZB. Performed the experiments: JY LG. Analyzed the data: QK JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SZ WJ YH. Wrote the paper: QK.