About the Authors

Yu Ling

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Ling, Chunyu Zhang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Chunyu Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Ling, Chunyu Zhang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Tong Chen

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Huaiqing Hao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Peng Liu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Ray A. Bressan

Affiliations Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Plant Stress Genomics Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Biological Science Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Division of Applied Life Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea

Paul M. Hasegawa

Affiliation Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Jing Bo Jin

jinjb@ibcas.ac.cn (JBJ); linjx@ibcas.ac.cn (JL)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jinxing Lin

jinjb@ibcas.ac.cn (JBJ); linjx@ibcas.ac.cn (JL)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL JBJ. Performed the experiments: YL CZ. Analyzed the data: YL TC HH PL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PMH JBJ. Wrote the paper: YL JL JBJ RAB.