About the Authors

Xinqi Fan

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China, Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed (Nanjing), Ministry of Agriculture, P. R. China, The Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China

Qi Guo

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed (Nanjing), Ministry of Agriculture, P. R. China, The Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China

Peng Xu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed (Nanjing), Ministry of Agriculture, P. R. China, The Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China

YuanYong Gong

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed (Nanjing), Ministry of Agriculture, P. R. China, The Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China

Hongmei Shu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed (Nanjing), Ministry of Agriculture, P. R. China, The Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China

Yang Yang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed (Nanjing), Ministry of Agriculture, P. R. China, The Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China

Wanchao Ni

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed (Nanjing), Ministry of Agriculture, P. R. China, The Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China

Xianggui Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed (Nanjing), Ministry of Agriculture, P. R. China, The Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China

Xinlian Shen

xlshen68@126.com

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Cotton and Rapeseed (Nanjing), Ministry of Agriculture, P. R. China, The Institute of Industrial Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XLS. Performed the experiments: XQF QG YYG HMS XGZ. Analyzed the data: XQF PX YY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WCN. Wrote the paper: XQF XLS.