About the Authors

Qing Jin

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China

Chunyan Jiao

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China

Shiwei Sun

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China

Cheng Song

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China

Yongping Cai

ypcaiah@163.com (YC); linyi1957@126.com (YL)

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China

Yi Lin

ypcaiah@163.com (YC); linyi1957@126.com (YL)

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China

Honghong Fan

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China

Yanfang Zhu

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL YC. Performed the experiments: QJ CJ SS YZ. Analyzed the data: QJ CJ SS CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJ SS. Wrote the paper: QJ CJ SS HF.