About the Authors

Jun Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Jia, Bin Yu

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Centre of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, Biomass and Bioenergy Research Centre, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Bin Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Jia, Bin Yu

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Centre of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, Biomass and Bioenergy Research Centre, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Leiming Wu

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Centre of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, Biomass and Bioenergy Research Centre, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Hongwu Wang

Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

Zhiliang Wu

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Centre of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, Biomass and Bioenergy Research Centre, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Ming Li

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Centre of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, Biomass and Bioenergy Research Centre, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Pengyan Huang

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Centre of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, Biomass and Bioenergy Research Centre, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Shengqiu Feng

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Centre of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, Biomass and Bioenergy Research Centre, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Peng Chen

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Centre of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, Biomass and Bioenergy Research Centre, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Yonglian Zheng

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Centre of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Liangcai Peng

lpeng@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Centre of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, Biomass and Bioenergy Research Centre, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LP. Performed the experiments: JJ BY LW ZW ML PH. Analyzed the data: JJ BY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HW SF PC YZ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: LP.