About the Authors

Jibiao Fan

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China

Ke Chen

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China

Erick Amombo

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China

Zhengrong Hu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China

Liang Chen

chenliang1034@126.com (LC); jfu@wbgcas.cn (JF)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China

Jinmin Fu

chenliang1034@126.com (LC); jfu@wbgcas.cn (JF)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: J. Fu LC. Performed the experiments: ZH J. Fan. Analyzed the data: KC LC J. Fan. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: J. Fan. Wrote the paper: J. Fan EA LC J. Fu.