About the Authors

Ya-Lin Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, 455000, China

Zhi-Fang Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, 455000, China

Zi-Li Feng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, 455000, China

Hong-Jie Feng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, 455000, China

Yong-Qiang Shi

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, 455000, China

Li-Hong Zhao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, 455000, China

Xi-Ling Zhang

hainan1571@163.com (XLZ); heqinanyang@163.com (HQZ)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, 455000, China

He-Qin Zhu

hainan1571@163.com (XLZ); heqinanyang@163.com (HQZ)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, 455000, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HQZ. Data curation: YLZ HQZ. Formal analysis: XLZ. Investigation: YQS LHZ. Methodology: YLZ ZFL. Project administration: ZLF HJF. Resources: HQZ XLZ. Software: ZLF HJF. Supervision: HQZ. Validation: HQZ. Writing – original draft: YLZ ZFL. Writing – review & editing: HQZ XLZ.