About the Authors

Xingju Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xingju Zhang, Yanchao Yuan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology/Agronomy College, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China

Yanchao Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Xingju Zhang, Yanchao Yuan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology/Agronomy College, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China

Ze Wei

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology/Agronomy College, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China

Xian Guo

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology/Agronomy College, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China

Yuping Guo

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology/Agronomy College, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China

Suqing Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology/Agronomy College, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China

Junsheng Zhao

Affiliation Cotton Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China

Guihua Zhang

Affiliation Heze Academy of Agricultual Sciences, Heze, Shandong, China

Xianliang Song

songxl999@163.com (XLS); sunxz@sdau.edu.cn (XZS)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology/Agronomy College, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China

Xuezhen Sun

songxl999@163.com (XLS); sunxz@sdau.edu.cn (XZS)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology/Agronomy College, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XLS XZS. Performed the experiments: XZ YY ZW XG YG SZ GZ. Analyzed the data: XZ XLS XZS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ. Wrote the paper: XZ XLS XZS. XZ and YY contributed equally to this research.