About the Authors

Yanshuai Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanshuai Xu, Zhihong Gao

Affiliations College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, No. 1 Weigang, Nanjing, 210095, P. R. China, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Horticultural Crop Genetic Improvement, No.50 Zhongling Street, Nanjing, 210014, P.R. China

Zhihong Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanshuai Xu, Zhihong Gao

Affiliation College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, No. 1 Weigang, Nanjing, 210095, P. R. China

Jianmin Tao

Affiliation College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, No. 1 Weigang, Nanjing, 210095, P. R. China

Weihua Jiang

Affiliation Agricultural Bureau & Forestry Workstation, Wujin District, Changzhou, 213000, P. R. China

Shijie Zhang

Affiliation College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, No. 1 Weigang, Nanjing, 210095, P. R. China

Qiunan Wang

Affiliation Agricultural Bureau & Forestry Workstation, Wujin District, Changzhou, 213000, P. R. China

Shenchun Qu

qscnj@njau.edu.cn

Affiliation College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, No. 1 Weigang, Nanjing, 210095, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZG YX. Performed the experiments: YX SZ SQ. Analyzed the data: WJ JT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QW SZ. Wrote the paper: YX ZG SQ.