About the Authors

Juan Chai

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Chai, Renjun Feng

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, Hainan, China

Renjun Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Chai, Renjun Feng

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, Hainan, China

Hourui Shi

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, Hainan, China, College of Agronomy, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan, China

Mengyun Ren

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, Hainan, China, College of Agronomy, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan, China

Yindong Zhang

wangjingyi@itbb.org.cn (JYW), 23300558@163.com (YDZ)

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan, China

Jingyi Wang

wangjingyi@itbb.org.cn (JYW), 23300558@163.com (YDZ)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, Hainan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JYW. Performed the experiments: JC HRS MYR. Analyzed the data: JYW JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JYW. Wrote the paper: JYW RJF. Supervised the work: YDZ.