About the Authors

Yonghan Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yonghan Xu, Minjuan Deng

Affiliation Province Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering on Plant Metabolism, Virology and Biotechnology Institute, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

Minjuan Deng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yonghan Xu, Minjuan Deng

Affiliation Province Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering on Plant Metabolism, Virology and Biotechnology Institute, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

Jianfei Peng

Affiliation College of Biosafety Science and Technology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Zhanghua Hu

Affiliation Province Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering on Plant Metabolism, Virology and Biotechnology Institute, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

Lieming Bao

Affiliation Province Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering on Plant Metabolism, Virology and Biotechnology Institute, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

Junming Wang

Affiliation Crop Science and Nuclear Utilization Institute, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

Zhi-Liang Zheng

zhiliang.zheng@lehman.cuny.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YX ZLZ. Performed the experiments: YX MD JP ZH LB JW. Analyzed the data: YX MD ZLZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YX. Wrote the paper: YX ZLZ.