About the Authors

Huiyun Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Huiyun Liu, Ke Wang, Lele Xiao, Shunli Wang

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China

Ke Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Huiyun Liu, Ke Wang, Lele Xiao, Shunli Wang

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China

Lele Xiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Huiyun Liu, Ke Wang, Lele Xiao, Shunli Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Genetics and Biotechnology, College of Life Science, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China

Shunli Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Huiyun Liu, Ke Wang, Lele Xiao, Shunli Wang

Affiliation Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China

Lipu Du

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China

Xinyou Cao

Affiliation Crop Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, 250100, China

Xiaoxiang Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Agricultural Sciences of Lixiahe Districts, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225007, China

Yang Zhou

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China

Yueming Yan

yanym@cnu.edu.cn (YY); yexingguo@caas.cn (XY)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Genetics and Biotechnology, College of Life Science, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China

Xingguo Ye

yanym@cnu.edu.cn (YY); yexingguo@caas.cn (XY)

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XGY YMY. Performed the experiments: HYL KW LLX SLW. Analyzed the data: LLX LPD XYC XXZ YZ HYL KW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LPD KW. Wrote the paper: XGY HYL KW.