About the Authors

Bingbing Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology (China)/Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Anyang, Henan, China

Guoyuan Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology (China)/Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Anyang, Henan, China

Xue Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology (China)/Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Anyang, Henan, China

Liping Guo

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology (China)/Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Anyang, Henan, China

Xuexian Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology (China)/Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Anyang, Henan, China

Tingxiang Qi

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology (China)/Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Anyang, Henan, China

Hailin Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology (China)/Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Anyang, Henan, China

Huini Tang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology (China)/Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Anyang, Henan, China

Xiuqin Qiao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology (China)/Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Anyang, Henan, China

Jinfa Zhang

Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

Chaozhu Xing

dr.wujianyong@live.cn (JW); xingcz@cricaas.com.cn (CX)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology (China)/Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Anyang, Henan, China

Jianyong Wu

dr.wujianyong@live.cn (JW); xingcz@cricaas.com.cn (CX)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology (China)/Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Anyang, Henan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CX JW. Data curation: CX JW JZ. Formal analysis: BZ GL XL. Funding acquisition: CX JW. Investigation: BZ GL XL LG XZ. Methodology: CX JW TQ HW. Project administration: CX JW LG. Resources: XZ HW HT XQ. Supervision: LG TQ XZ. Visualization: BZ GL XL JZ. Writing – original draft: BZ JW JZ. Writing – review & editing: BZ JW JZ.