About the Authors

Mei-Qin Chen

Affiliation PKU-Yale Joint Research Center of Agricultural and Plant Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University and The National Center of Plant Gene Research, Beijing, China

Ai-Hong Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Quan Zhang

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Bao-Cai Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jie Nan

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Xia Li

Affiliation PKU-Yale Joint Research Center of Agricultural and Plant Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University and The National Center of Plant Gene Research, Beijing, China

Na Liu

Affiliation PKU-Yale Joint Research Center of Agricultural and Plant Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University and The National Center of Plant Gene Research, Beijing, China

Hong Qu

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Cong-Ming Lu

Affiliation Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Sudmorgen

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Yi-Hua Zhou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Zhi-Hong Xu

Affiliation PKU-Yale Joint Research Center of Agricultural and Plant Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University and The National Center of Plant Gene Research, Beijing, China

Shu-Nong Bai

shunongb@pku.edu.cn

Affiliation PKU-Yale Joint Research Center of Agricultural and Plant Molecular Biology, State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, College of Life Sciences, Peking University and The National Center of Plant Gene Research, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB MC CL S YZ. Performed the experiments: MC AZ QZ BZ JN XL NL. Analyzed the data: SB MC QZ BZ JN XL HQ CL S YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JN XL. Wrote the paper: SB MC QZ JN XL HQ CL S YZ ZX.