About the Authors

Bin Zhao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, China

Shuting Dong

stdong@sdau.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, China

Jiwang Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, China

Peng Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: STD BZ. Performed the experiments: JWZ BZ. Analyzed the data: PL BZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: STD BZ. Wrote the paper: BZ.