About the Authors

Jihong Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jihong Hu, Songtao Gui

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

Songtao Gui

Contributed equally to this work with: Jihong Hu, Songtao Gui

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

Zhixuan Zhu

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

Xiaolei Wang

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

Weidong Ke

Affiliation Wuhan Vegetable Scientific Research Institute, Wuhan National Field Observation & Research Station for Aquatic Vegetables, Wuhan, 430065, China

Yi Ding

yiding@whu.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of 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: YD JHH. Performed the experiments: JHH STG XLW. Analyzed the data: STG ZXZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YD WDK. Wrote the paper: JHH YD.