About the Authors

Han Yu Gong

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Engineering Research Centre for the Protection and Utilization of Bioresource in Ethnic Area of Southern China, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China

Yang Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Gen Fang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Dao Heng Hu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Wen Bin Jin

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Zhao Hai Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Yang Sheng Li

lysh2001@whu.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HYG YSL. Performed the experiments: HYG YL GF DHH WBJ ZHW. Analyzed the data: HYG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HYG. Wrote the paper: HYG.