About the Authors

Tietao Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Tietao Wang, Meiru Si, Yunhong Song

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Meiru Si

Contributed equally to this work with: Tietao Wang, Meiru Si, Yunhong Song

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Yunhong Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Tietao Wang, Meiru Si, Yunhong Song

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Wenhan Zhu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Fen Gao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Yao Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Lei Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Weipeng Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Gehong Wei

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Zhao-Qing Luo

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Xihui Shen

xihuishen@nwsuaf.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TW MS YS YW ZQL XS. Performed the experiments: TW MS YS WZhu FG YW WZha LZ. Analyzed the data: TW MS YW GW ZQL XS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW GW ZQL XS. Wrote the paper: TW ZQL XS.