About the Authors

Huanian Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Huanian Wu, Yongqiang Zhang, Wangbin Zhang

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Beijing 100081, PR China

Yongqiang Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Huanian Wu, Yongqiang Zhang, Wangbin Zhang

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Beijing 100081, PR China

Wangbin Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Huanian Wu, Yongqiang Zhang, Wangbin Zhang

Affiliation College of plant science, Tarim University, Alar, Xinjiang 843300, PR China

Xinwu Pei

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Beijing 100081, PR China

Chao Zhang

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Beijing 100081, PR China

Shirong Jia

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Beijing 100081, PR China

Weimin Li

liweimin01@caas.cn

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Beijing 100081, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WL SJ. Performed the experiments: HW YZ WZ XP CZ WL. Analyzed the data: HW WL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ WL WZ. Wrote the paper: WL.