About the Authors

Ying Ye

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, P.R. China

Jing Yuan

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, P.R. China

Xiaojian Chang

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, P.R. China

Meng Yang

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, P.R. China

Lejing Zhang

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, P.R. China

Kai Lu

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, P.R. China

Xingming Lian

xmlian@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XL YY. Performed the experiments: YY JY LZ XC KL. Analyzed the data: YY JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XL. Wrote the paper: YY XL MY.