About the Authors

Meiyu Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Meiyu Sun, Wei Hua

Affiliation Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Wei Hua

Contributed equally to this work with: Meiyu Sun, Wei Hua

Affiliation Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Jing Liu

Affiliation Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Shunmou Huang

Affiliation Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Xinfa Wang

Affiliation Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Guihua Liu

Affiliation Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Hanzhong Wang

wanghz@oilcrops.cn

Affiliation Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HW WH. Performed the experiments: MS JL SH XW GL. Analyzed the data: MS. Wrote the paper: MS WH.