About the Authors

Shuli Fan

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuli Fan, Yanyan Meng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan Province, China

Yanyan Meng

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuli Fan, Yanyan Meng

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology and Breeding in the Middle Reaches of the Changjing River, Institute of Economic Crop, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Science, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Meizhen Song

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan Province, China

Chaoyou Pang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan Province, China

Hengling Wei

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan Province, China

Ji Liu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan Province, China, College of Agronomy, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China

Xianjin Zhan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology and Breeding in the Middle Reaches of the Changjing River, Institute of Economic Crop, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Science, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Jiayang Lan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology and Breeding in the Middle Reaches of the Changjing River, Institute of Economic Crop, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Science, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Changhui Feng

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology and Breeding in the Middle Reaches of the Changjing River, Institute of Economic Crop, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Science, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Shengxi Zhang

zhangsx01@126.com (SZ); yu@cricaas.com.cn (SY)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology and Breeding in the Middle Reaches of the Changjing River, Institute of Economic Crop, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Science, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Shuxun Yu

zhangsx01@126.com (SZ); yu@cricaas.com.cn (SY)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SF SY YM. Performed the experiments: YM J. Liu. Analyzed the data: YM HW CP MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SF SZ XZ J. Lan CF. Wrote the paper: YM.