About the Authors

Hongxian Mei

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongxian Mei, Chengqi Cui

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Shennong Laboratory, Zhengzhou, Henan, China, Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Chengqi Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongxian Mei, Chengqi Cui

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

Affiliations The Shennong Laboratory, Zhengzhou, Henan, China, Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Yanyang Liu

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Zhenwei Du

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Ke Wu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Xiaolin Jiang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Yongzhan Zheng

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

sesame168@163.com (YZ); zhanghaiyang@zzu.edu.cn (HZ)

Affiliation Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Haiyang Zhang

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation

sesame168@163.com (YZ); zhanghaiyang@zzu.edu.cn (HZ)

Affiliations The Shennong Laboratory, Zhengzhou, Henan, China, Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.