About the Authors

Hongchang Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongchang Jia, Bingjun Jiang, Cunxiang Wu

Affiliations Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) Key Laboratory of Soybean Biology (Beijing), Institute of Crop Sciences, The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, Heihe Branch of Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Heihe, Heilongjiang, China

Bingjun Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongchang Jia, Bingjun Jiang, Cunxiang Wu

Affiliation Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) Key Laboratory of Soybean Biology (Beijing), Institute of Crop Sciences, The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Cunxiang Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongchang Jia, Bingjun Jiang, Cunxiang Wu

Affiliation Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) Key Laboratory of Soybean Biology (Beijing), Institute of Crop Sciences, The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Wencheng Lu

Affiliation Heihe Branch of Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Heihe, Heilongjiang, China

Wensheng Hou

Affiliation Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) Key Laboratory of Soybean Biology (Beijing), Institute of Crop Sciences, The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Shi Sun

Affiliation Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) Key Laboratory of Soybean Biology (Beijing), Institute of Crop Sciences, The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Hongrui Yan

hhyhr@sina.com (HRY); hantianfu@caas.cn (TFH)

Affiliation Heihe Branch of Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Heihe, Heilongjiang, China

Tianfu Han

hhyhr@sina.com (HRY); hantianfu@caas.cn (TFH)

Affiliation Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) Key Laboratory of Soybean Biology (Beijing), Institute of Crop Sciences, The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TH. Performed the experiments: HJ CW WL HY. Analyzed the data: BJ HJ CW TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WH SS HY TH. Wrote the paper: BJ HJ TH.