About the Authors

Haikuo Fan

Contributed equally to this work with: Haikuo Fan, Yong Xiao, Yaodong Yang

Affiliations College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuang province, P.R. China, Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Wenchang, Hainan, P.R. China

Yong Xiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Haikuo Fan, Yong Xiao, Yaodong Yang

Affiliation Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Wenchang, Hainan, P.R. China

Yaodong Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Haikuo Fan, Yong Xiao, Yaodong Yang

yangyd@tocri.com (YY); htang@sicau.edu.cn (HT)

Affiliation Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Wenchang, Hainan, P.R. China

Wei Xia

Affiliation Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Wenchang, Hainan, P.R. China

Annaliese S. Mason

Affiliation School of Agriculture and Food Sciences and Centre for Integrative Legume Research, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Zhihui Xia

Affiliation Hainan Key Laboratory for Sustainable Utilization of Tropical Bioresources/Institute of BioScience and Technology, College of Agriculture, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan province, P.R China

Fei Qiao

Affiliation Tropical Corps Genetic Resources Institute/Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement in Southern China, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Danzhou, Hainan province, P.R. China

Songlin Zhao

Affiliation Hainan Key Laboratory of Tropical Oil Crops Biology/Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Wenchang, Hainan, P.R. China

Haoru Tang

yangyd@tocri.com (YY); htang@sicau.edu.cn (HT)

Affiliation College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuang province, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YX HF YY WX ZX SZ FQ HT. Performed the experiments: YX WX. Analyzed the data: YX YY WX ASM HF HT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YX YY HF ZX. Wrote the paper: XY WX ASM YY.