About the Authors

Xin Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Chen, Jin Zhang

Affiliation Shandong Institute of Pomology, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fruit Tree Biotechnology Breeding, Tai'an, Shandong, China

Jin Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Chen, Jin Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

Qingzhong Liu

Affiliation Shandong Institute of Pomology, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fruit Tree Biotechnology Breeding, Tai'an, Shandong, China

Wei Guo

Affiliation School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Tiantian Zhao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

Qinghua Ma

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

Guixi Wang

wanggx0114@126.com

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XC GW. Performed the experiments: XC JZ TZ QM. Analyzed the data: XC JZ WG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QL TZ QM GW. Wrote the paper: XC JZ GW. Deposited the sequences in databases: XC JZ.