About the Authors

Xiaoqing Tang

xqtang@njau.edu.cn

Affiliation College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, The People’s Republic of China

Yunhua Xiao

Affiliation College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, The People’s Republic of China

Tingting Lv

Affiliation College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, The People’s Republic of China

Fangquan Wang

Affiliation Institute of Food Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, The People’s Republic of China

QianHao Zhu

Affiliation CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia

Tianqing Zheng

Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, The People’s Republic of China

Jie Yang

Affiliation Institute of Food Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, The People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XQT JY. Performed the experiments: YHX TTL FQW. Analyzed the data: XQT TQZH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XQT YHX. Wrote the paper: XQT QHZH.