About the Authors

Mingwei Du

Contributed equally to this work with: Mingwei Du, Yi Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Engineering Research Center of Plant Growth Regulator, Ministry of Education, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Yi Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Mingwei Du, Yi Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Engineering Research Center of Plant Growth Regulator, Ministry of Education, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Xiaoli Tian

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Engineering Research Center of Plant Growth Regulator, Ministry of Education, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Liusheng Duan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Engineering Research Center of Plant Growth Regulator, Ministry of Education, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Mingcai Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Engineering Research Center of Plant Growth Regulator, Ministry of Education, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Weiming Tan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Engineering Research Center of Plant Growth Regulator, Ministry of Education, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Dongyong Xu

Affiliation Hebei Provincial Engineering Research Center of Cotton Seed, Hejian, Hebei, China

Zhaohu Li

lizhaohu@cau.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Engineering Research Center of Plant Growth Regulator, Ministry of Education, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MWD YL ZHL. Performed the experiments: MWD YL XLT MCZ WMT. Analyzed the data: MWD XLT LSD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MWD YL LSD WMT DYX. Wrote the paper: MWD MCZ ZHL.