About the Authors

Ayaz Ahmad

Contributed equally to this work with: Ayaz Ahmad, Yuzhu Dong

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yuzhu Dong

Contributed equally to this work with: Ayaz Ahmad, Yuzhu Dong

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiaofeng Cao

xfcao@genetics.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AA XC. Performed the experiments: AA YD. Analyzed the data: AA XC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XC. Wrote the paper: AA XC.