About the Authors

Jingjing Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Jingjing Chen, Jing Jing

Affiliation College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China

Jing Jing

Contributed equally to this work with: Jingjing Chen, Jing Jing

Affiliation College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China

Zhongxiang Zhan

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Teng Zhang

Affiliation College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China

Chunyu Zhang

zypiao@syau.edu.cn (ZP); zhchy@mail.hzau.edu.cn (CZ)

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Zhongyun Piao

zypiao@syau.edu.cn (ZP); zhchy@mail.hzau.edu.cn (CZ)

Affiliation College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZP CZ JC JJ. Performed the experiments: ZP CZ JC JJ ZZ. Analyzed the data: ZP CZ JC JJ ZZ TZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZP CZ. Wrote the manuscript: ZP CZ JC JJ.