About the Authors

Lu Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Jin, Ning Ouyang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China, Key Laboratory of Crop Epigenetic Regulation and Development in Hunan Province, Changsha, China, Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Biology of Education Department in Hunan Province, Changsha, China

Ning Ouyang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Jin, Ning Ouyang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China, Key Laboratory of Crop Epigenetic Regulation and Development in Hunan Province, Changsha, China, Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Biology of Education Department in Hunan Province, Changsha, China

Yong Huang

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China, Key Laboratory of Crop Epigenetic Regulation and Development in Hunan Province, Changsha, China, Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Biology of Education Department in Hunan Province, Changsha, China

Chunlin Liu

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Agricultural College of Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Ying Ruan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

yingruan@hotmail.com

Affiliations College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China, Key Laboratory of Crop Epigenetic Regulation and Development in Hunan Province, Changsha, China, Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Molecular Biology of Education Department in Hunan Province, Changsha, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.