About the Authors

Wei Hu

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, 571101, China

Yan Yan

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, 571101, China

Xiaowan Hou

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, 571101, China

Yanzhen He

Affiliation The Genetic Engineering International Cooperation Base of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Chinese Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

Yunxie Wei

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, 571101, China

Guangxiao Yang

ygx@mail.hust.edu.cn (GY); hegy@mail.hust.edu.cn (GH); mmpeng_2000@yahoo.com (MP)

Affiliation The Genetic Engineering International Cooperation Base of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Chinese Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

Guangyuan He

ygx@mail.hust.edu.cn (GY); hegy@mail.hust.edu.cn (GH); mmpeng_2000@yahoo.com (MP)

Affiliation The Genetic Engineering International Cooperation Base of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Chinese Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

Ming Peng

ygx@mail.hust.edu.cn (GY); hegy@mail.hust.edu.cn (GH); mmpeng_2000@yahoo.com (MP)

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, 571101, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GXY GYH MP WH. Performed the experiments: YY XWH YZH YXW. Analyzed the data: WH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GYH GXY. Wrote the paper: WH.