About the Authors

Chen Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Chen, Yufeng Song

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Yufeng Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Chen, Yufeng Song

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Kai Zhuang

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Lu Li

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Yan Xia

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Zhenguo Shen

zgshen@njau.edu.cn

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZGS CC. Performed the experiments: YFS KZ. Analyzed the data: YFS CC LL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KZ LL YX. Wrote the paper: CC ZGS.