About the Authors

Haiyang Nan

Contributed equally to this work with: Haiyang Nan, Dong Cao, Dayong Zhang, Ying Li

Affiliations The Key of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nangang District, Harbin, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Dong Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Haiyang Nan, Dong Cao, Dayong Zhang, Ying Li

Affiliation The Key of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nangang District, Harbin, China

Dayong Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Haiyang Nan, Dong Cao, Dayong Zhang, Ying Li

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China

Ying Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Haiyang Nan, Dong Cao, Dayong Zhang, Ying Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China

Sijia Lu

Affiliations The Key of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nangang District, Harbin, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Lili Tang

Affiliation The Key of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nangang District, Harbin, China

Xiaohui Yuan

Affiliation The Key of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nangang District, Harbin, China

Baohui Liu

liubh@iga.ac.cn (BL); kongfj@iga.ac.cn (FK)

Affiliation The Key of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nangang District, Harbin, China

Fanjiang Kong

liubh@iga.ac.cn (BL); kongfj@iga.ac.cn (FK)

Affiliation The Key of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nangang District, Harbin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HYN BHL FJK. Performed the experiments: HYN DC DYZ YL SJL LLT. Analyzed the data: HYN XHY BHL FJK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XHY BHL FJK. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: HYN FJK.