About the Authors

Yuhong Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuhong Zhang, Xiaolu Xu

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Xiaolu Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuhong Zhang, Xiaolu Xu

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Xiaojin Zhou

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Rumei Chen

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Peilong Yang

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Qingchang Meng

Affiliation Institute of Food Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, P. R. China

Kun Meng

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Huiying Luo

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Jianhua Yuan

Affiliation Institute of Food Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, P. R. China

Bin Yao

binyao@caas.cn (BY); zhangwei02@caas.cn (ZW)

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Wei Zhang

binyao@caas.cn (BY); zhangwei02@caas.cn (ZW)

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PLY BY WZ. Performed the experiments: XLX YHZ QCM. Analyzed the data: RMC JHY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XJZ KM HYL. Wrote the paper: YHZ.