About the Authors

Jin-Ying Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Ying Cui, Han Miao

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

Han Miao

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Ying Cui, Han Miao

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

Li-Hong Ding

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

Todd C. Wehner

Affiliation Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Pan-Na Liu

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

Ye Wang

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

Sheng-Ping Zhang

guxingfang@caas.cn (XFG); zhangshengping@caas.cn (SPZ)

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

Xing-Fang Gu

guxingfang@caas.cn (XFG); zhangshengping@caas.cn (SPZ)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JYC HM SPZ XFG. Performed the experiments: JYC HM LHD PNL YW. Analyzed the data: JYC HM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TCW. Wrote the paper: JYC HM SPZ XFG.