About the Authors

Xia Zhou

Affiliation Key laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Science, Haikou, Hainan, 571101, P.R. China

Yunling Guo

Affiliation Key laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Science, Haikou, Hainan, 571101, P.R. China

Hua Kong

Affiliation Key laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Science, Haikou, Hainan, 571101, P.R. China

Jiao Zuo

Affiliation Key laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Science, Haikou, Hainan, 571101, P.R. China

Qixing Huang

Affiliation Key laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Science, Haikou, Hainan, 571101, P.R. China

Ruizong Jia

Affiliation Key laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Science, Haikou, Hainan, 571101, P.R. China

Anping Guo

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Affiliation Key laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Science, Haikou, Hainan, 571101, P.R. China

Lin Xu

Affiliation Key laboratory of Biology and Genetic Resources of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Science, Haikou, Hainan, 571101, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ APG. Performed the experiments: XZ HK JZ RZJ. Analyzed the data: XZ QXH YLG LX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QXH. Wrote the paper: XZ RZJ APG.