About the Authors

Tian Fan

Contributed equally to this work with: Tian Fan, Xiumei Li

Affiliations Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiumei Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Tian Fan, Xiumei Li

Affiliations University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Wu Yang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Kuaifei Xia

Affiliation Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Jie Ouyang

Affiliation Rice Institute, Chongqing Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chongqing, China

Mingyong Zhang

zhangmy@scbg.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TF XML MYZ. Performed the experiments: TF XML KFX WY. Analyzed the data: TF XML MYZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TF XML KFX JOY MYZ. Wrote the paper: TF MYZ.