About the Authors

Peipei Xu

Affiliation Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 300 Fenglin Rd, Shanghai 200032, China

Aiping Zang

Affiliation Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 300 Fenglin Rd, Shanghai 200032, China

Haiying Chen

Affiliation Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 300 Fenglin Rd, Shanghai 200032, China

Weiming Cai

wmcai@sibs.ac.cn

Affiliation Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 300 Fenglin Rd, Shanghai 200032, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PX WC. Performed the experiments: PX AZ. Analyzed the data: PX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PX HC. Wrote the paper: PX WC. Made all the figures in the manuscript: HC.