About the Authors

Qiulan Luo

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Crop Biotechnology, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science, Haikou, 571101, China

Yajun Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Crop Biotechnology, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science, Haikou, 571101, China

Wenquan Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Crop Biotechnology, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science, Haikou, 571101, China

Xiaowen Fei

Affiliation School of Science, Hainan Medical College, Haikou, 571101, China

Xiaodong Deng

dengxiaodong@itbb.org.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Crop Biotechnology, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science, Haikou, 571101, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XDD. Performed the experiments: QLL YJL. Analyzed the data: QLL YJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XWF. Wrote the paper: QLL XDD WQW XWF.