About the Authors

Guangyu Guo

Contributed equally to this work with: Guangyu Guo, Kun Xu, Xiaomei Zhang

Affiliation College of Agriculture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China

Kun Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Guangyu Guo, Kun Xu, Xiaomei Zhang

Affiliations MOA Key Lab of Soybean Biology (Beijing), National Key Facility of Crop Gene Resource and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhongguancun Nandajie, Haidian District, Beijing, China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiaomei Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Guangyu Guo, Kun Xu, Xiaomei Zhang

Affiliation MOA Key Lab of Soybean Biology (Beijing), National Key Facility of Crop Gene Resource and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhongguancun Nandajie, Haidian District, Beijing, China

Jinlong Zhu

Affiliation MOA Key Lab of Soybean Biology (Beijing), National Key Facility of Crop Gene Resource and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhongguancun Nandajie, Haidian District, Beijing, China

Mingyang Lu

Affiliations MOA Key Lab of Soybean Biology (Beijing), National Key Facility of Crop Gene Resource and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhongguancun Nandajie, Haidian District, Beijing, China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Fulu Chen

Affiliation MOA Key Lab of Soybean Biology (Beijing), National Key Facility of Crop Gene Resource and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhongguancun Nandajie, Haidian District, Beijing, China

Linpo Liu

Affiliation MOA Key Lab of Soybean Biology (Beijing), National Key Facility of Crop Gene Resource and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhongguancun Nandajie, Haidian District, Beijing, China

Zhang-Ying Xi

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China

Andreas Bachmair

Affiliation Dept. of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Vienna Biocenter, Dr. Bohr Gasse 9, A-1030 Vienna, Austria

Qingshan Chen

fufu19cn@163.com (Y-FF); qshchen@126.com (QC)

Affiliation College of Agriculture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China

Yong-Fu Fu

fufu19cn@163.com (Y-FF); qshchen@126.com (QC)

Affiliation MOA Key Lab of Soybean Biology (Beijing), National Key Facility of Crop Gene Resource and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhongguancun Nandajie, Haidian District, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y-FF QC. Performed the experiments: GG KX XZ JZ ML FC LL ZX. Analyzed the data: GG KX XZ Y-FF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Y-FF QC. Wrote the paper: Y-FF GG KX AB.