About the Authors

Hantao Wang

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University. Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China

Cong Huang

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University. Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China

Huanle Guo

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University. Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China

Ximei Li

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University. Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China

Wenxia Zhao

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University. Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China

Baosheng Dai

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University. Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China

Zhenhua Yan

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University. Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China

Zhongxu Lin

linzhongxu@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University. Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZL. Performed the experiments: HW CH HG XL WZ BD ZY. Analyzed the data: HW. Wrote the paper: HW ZL.