About the Authors

Xiaoqian Chu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoqian Chu, Chen Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China

Chen Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaoqian Chu, Chen Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China

Xiaobo Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China

Wenjing Lu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China

Han Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China

Xiuling Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China

Lili Hao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China

Xingqi Guo

xqguo@sdau.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: X. Chu CW HL XG. Performed the experiments: X. Chu CW X. Chen WL. Analyzed the data: CW HL XW LH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: X. Chu WL HL XG. Wrote the paper: X. Chu CW X. Chen WL HL LH XG.