About the Authors

Wenfang Gong

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenfang Gong, Shoupu He

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, China

Shoupu He

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenfang Gong, Shoupu He

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, China

Jiahuan Tian

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, China

Junling Sun

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, China

Zhaoe Pan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, China

Yinhua Jia

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, China

Gaofei Sun

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, China, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Anyang Institute of Technology, Anyang, China

Xiongming Du

dujeffrey8848@hotmail.com

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WG SH XD. Performed the experiments: WG SH JT. Analyzed the data: WG SH GS XF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS ZP YJ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: WG.