About the Authors

Bin Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Han, Changbiao Wang

Affiliation College of Bio-engineering, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China

Changbiao Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Bin Han, Changbiao Wang

tzhhui126@126.com (ZHT); cotton.z@126.com (DYZ); wcbksl@126.com (CBW)

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Taiyuan, China

Zhaohui Tang

tzhhui126@126.com (ZHT); cotton.z@126.com (DYZ); wcbksl@126.com (CBW)

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Taiyuan, China

Yongkang Ren

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science, Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Taiyuan, China

Yali Li

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Taiyuan, China

Dayong Zhang

tzhhui126@126.com (ZHT); cotton.z@126.com (DYZ); wcbksl@126.com (CBW)

Affiliation Provincial Key Laboratory of Agrobiology, Institute of Biotechnology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China

Yanhui Dong

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Taiyuan, China

Xinghua Zhao

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Taiyuan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZHT DYZ. Performed the experiments: CBW. Analyzed the data: YKR YLL BH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YHD XHZ CBW. Wrote the paper: BH.